Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winds sprang up along the tindery countryside, every chimney spark, every pile of smoldering leaves, every discarded cigarette seemed to explode into a forest fire. The New England coast was masked by towering plumes of yellow-white smoke. So were great areas of New York and New Jersey...
...evolutionary process was to him the mark of a more highly evolved human being: "Let every man remember that the destiny of mankind is incomparable, and that it depends greatly on his will to collaborate in the transcendent task. . . . And let him above all never forget that the divine spark is in him, in him alone, and that he is free to disregard it, to kill it, or to come closer to God by showing his eagerness to work with...
...annual road race for horseless carriages which Financier Charles Glidden established in 1905 to popularize automobiling). The driver most in need of a horse: William E. Swigart Jr. of Huntingdon, Pa., whose 1908 Ford blew a piston head, broke a timing gear, contracted radiator leaks and collapse of the spark coil, and had seven flat tires before he got to the Hartford starting line...
After 1935, Harvard teams began the long climb up the ladder, Not always contenders for first-rate billing until the great team of 1941, the big football revues always gave Harlow credit for "well-drilled teams," capable of dark-horsing a way to the top-given breaks and a spark. In 1941, the powder barrel went off, and behind All-American Center Chub Peabody, the team made up in defense what it lacked in offense, catapulting the Crimson into the big time. Dreams of a football renaissance in Soldiers Field ended, however, with Pearl Harbor...
...noonday, as she lay moored alongside a municipal parking wharf at the foot of Wood Street, a spark flew wild from a welding torch being used to repair a section of loose railing. Within a few seconds, the Island Queen's fuel tanks went up in two explosions so violent that frightened Pittsburghers cried, "Atom bomb!" Fire swept her decks. No passengers were aboard and many of the boat's 96 crew members, concessionaires and musicians were shopping ashore, but the toll was high: 19 dead, 17 injured...