Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oudjda the local Pasha, 4O-year-old Si Mohamed el Hadjoui, publicly rebuked the Arab extremists for their "irresponsible acts." Later, as the Pasha entered a mosque for evening prayers, a fanatic Moslem stabbed him three times. Arabs joined Jews in stoning his assassin to death. Meanwhile the spark of racial hatred flared in Tripoli, where Arabs killed twelve Jews in another riot...
...come about. He is Paul-Henri Spaak, Premier of Belgium. With his cherubic frown, his bulging forehead, his pugnacious lower lip, he bears a startling resemblance to Winston Churchill; in the whole grey and sagging circle of European leaders, he is one of the few men with a spark of Churchillian fire. With one hand thrust truculently into his trouser pocket, he uses the other to tick off the reasons for Belgian prosperity...
...meet. The D'Oyly Carte Company set the standard at the premiere of each of the works way back in the Nineteenth Century, and it alone holds to the standard. Other companies try to do the operettas every now and then, but at best they are obvious substitutes--the spark is not there...
Sonotone Corp., which contends that its gross of $11,000,000 last year was bigger than Zenith's, chalked up 40% of its cost to manufacturing, the rest to training of acousticians and patient education. Zenith's McDonald considers all such frills so much mumbo-jumbo to spark sales. He thinks aids should be sold off department-store shelves and by mail order...
...week) in the first few months of operation. "I'll be editor & publisher," explained McKinnon, "but Field will still have a minority interest, which I'll have an option to buy. The staff is so overloaded it's pathetic. The whole thing lacks coordination and spark. I will strive to present the news as it is, not as we wish it were. PM will continue to be a liberal paper, but will not be a left-wing paper...