Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clay soil on which it sat-the audience will watch a re-enactment of the scene. Madeline Edison Sloane, the inventor's great-granddaughter, will throw the switch that opened a new era. As the German historian Emil Ludwig described the original event, "When Edison snatched up the spark of Prometheus in his little pear-shaped glass bulb, it meant that fire had been discovered for the second time, that mankind had been delivered again from the curse of night...
...language, his individual words and sentences. At times this connoisseur of puns and multiple entendres can be seen doing proud headstands behind his latest verbal tricks. Without straining too hard or setting his sights on the outrageous, he usually finds just the odd phrasing, the curious reference to spark laughter. He describes Reg Prinz, a movie director filming one of Barth's novels during Letters...
...effect of the Pope's visit on Boston is equally difficult to predict. "For Roman Catholics, the effect happened before he came--in the enthusiasm and encouragement displayed in the numbers of people who showed up and stayed for the Mass. The Pope's visit will bring a spark of life to them," Rimkus said...
...bill's floor manager, John M. Murphy (D-N.Y.), said yesterday rejection of the bill could spark violence in Panama. "A time bomb is ticking away," he said. "We have one week before we might face chaos in Panama...
Jensen's findings clearly have horrendous implications. Indeed, they come close to saying that blacks are a natural and permanent underclass-an idea so shocking that the book is likely to spark the most explosive debate yet over race and IQ. While his critics will not have their shots until his book is published, their job, according to Jensen, is simple enough: disprove the evidence or learn to live with it. But he is confident that his evidence will stand. "I think I have shown that the black-white differences are real, not artifacts of the test system...