Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mooney himself who makes the quartet spark. He does the arrangements they start from, writes many of the tunes, provides every cue during the improvisational passages, and sings the vocals in the soft style of Nat (King) Cole. Sometimes he switches from accordion to piano, astonishes fellow musicians by playing contrasting figures with right and left hand simultaneously. The other three members of the quartet watch Mooney closely, and with evident admiration. (He cannot watch them: he is blind.) Their cue from Mooney is often merely a smile or change of facial expression...
...much as any nation of the modern world, has learned the Roman lesson and followed in the Roman path. It may be fanciful to imagine that any afflatus of high statesmanship passed from Caesar to his noble and valiant adversary Cassivellaunus, or that by any mystical communion a spark of the Virgilian light of empire was tended through the centuries in Merlin's cave. Yet somehow the grand ideals of Roman dominion have not been lost in the modern world: jus, the conception of a law that should transcend the limitations of the small people who first conceived...
Under Naziism, the soul of Germany all but died. Under the occupation, its failing spark has yet to be blown again into flame. Lest it go out altogether, the Rev. Geoffrey P. Druitt, British Assistant Chaplain General, last week delivered a message, almost a prayer, to the British forces in Germany...
...idea of Weisz's gadget is the detection of minute quantities of ultra violet radiation. In the earth's absorbent atmosphere most natural and electric light rays, except clear sunlight, contain almost no radiation in the far ultraviolet (below 3,000 angstroms*); but an open flame or spark radiates appreciable amounts in that range. Weisz developed a photoelectric adaptation of the Geiger-Miiller counter (usually used for detecting radio activity), which responds to a flame or spark but not to ordinary light. Its likely first use: in airplanes - to give warning of flaming motors...
...grain of rice." And he helped write the puppet constitution-an act that has since thrown suspicion of collaboration upon him. What critics did not know was that the constitution read almost word for word like the U.S. Constitution, and that its jumpy, slippery author was the coordinator and spark of the all-important U.S. espionage in Manila...