Word: spurts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year's freshman captain. Al Ackerman, followed with a narrow victory in the 200-free over the Chiefs' Tom Purcell. Ackerman picked first in the lottery Monday night, was only a half-stroke ahead until a spurt in the final 50 yards gave him a winning time of 1:53.8. a second better than Purcell...
...season has already started off Broadway-but with more of a sputter than a spurt. The Ofay Watcher meanders through a black-white confrontation with moments of humor but no fresh insights. Years of sibling rivalry and family dissonance are spewed up in an evening-long wrangle between a brother and a sister in Hello and Goodbye by South Africa's Athol Fugard. Unlike a good family fight, a bad one sounds dull, mean and petty, though Colleen Dewhurst as the whoring sister gives a performance that is etched in sulfuric acid...
Added Crunch. Beyond that, administrators of the Government's federally insured student-loan program can already see the bad news reflected in a spurt of new loan applications. The added crunch comes at a time when tight money and the failure by Congress to adjust the loan program to the current money market threaten thousands of college and university students...
...beneath it advertised extra-large cantaloupes at three for 89?. A Long Island harness-racing track accompanied a picture of an astronaut stepping off the base of an LM mockup with the advice: "Hey, finish it later-Roosevelt Raceway opens tomorrow night." TWA and Pan Am eagerly accepted a spurt of new applications for the first commercial flights to the moon; one recent booking was made by California's Governor Ronald Reagan. Medals, pennants and assorted trinkets suddenly developed a moon motif-and found hordes of eager customers...
...source in the Director's office said yesterday that the "Do Your Thing" nights in the Union will provide a "mixer substitute" for those stranded, starved, and overheated in Cambridge this summer. Associate Social Director John Tolleson fathered the three Friday night galas in response to a spurt of requests for more mixers...