Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corners form three moving cavities that first increase in volume and then decrease. When a cavity, still small but growing, passes the intake port leading to the carburetor, it draws in fuel and air. Then the cavity decreases in volume, compressing the mixture. The engine's single spark plug fires; the exploding gas pushes the rotor and shaft. At the end of the power stroke, a corner of the rotor uncovers the exhaust port, and the burned gases are swept out of the engine. Meanwhile, two other cavities have been formed and are passing through the same cycle. Maximum...
...Spark. Last week, as the institute welcomed foreign and domestic experts to its fourth annual convention of specialists on Nazi Germany, one of the prime topics on everyone's tongue was a question that the world believed answered long ago: Who set the Reichstag fire...
...another innovation to announce. Calling in the press, he displayed (but did not demonstrate) a radical new internal combustion engine billed as the greatest advance since the diesel. It has no pistons or valves, only two moving parts; there is a carburetor to mix air and gasoline, a single spark plug, a rotor that drives the crankshaft. Beyond that. Hurley refused details. CW, he said, had developed the engine in conjunction with West Germany's NSU Werke, makers of autos and motorcycles, and had exclusive North American rights. In the works, said Hurley, was a whole string of models...
While the rally and flares were pre-arranged, the team showed an encouraging spontaneous spark in its last appearance on home grounds. Grim determination seemed to characterize both the squad and the coach as they went through their rugged, routine Thursday drills in near-freezing weather...
...influenced by Gnosticism. And Gnosticism, in its various forms (including Manichaeism) was one of the chief heresies fought by the early Christian church. Basic to all Gnostic sects was the belief that the world was evil, created by a bad god for the express purpose of imprisoning the divine spark which had somehow become vulnerable. Human beings who harbored some of this spark had secret knowledge (gnosis) and could be saved from the world trap by an emissary of the Divine whose mission was to gather up the scattered sparks and smuggle them out of the created universe to Paradise...