Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, although Miss Fontaine is eminently suited for Technicolor, her acting is often painfully overdone. She has a wonderfully expressive face, which she uses to full advantage in moments of excitement, but she lacks restraint in quieter scenes. De Cordova hasn't the spark that makes a buccaneer real...
...looks simple, is in fact in its subtleties and finer points by no manner of means easy to understand. To watch it is to be almost as much mystified as on first entering a tennis court; but if much is hidden, the raw spectator can at least catch a spark of excitement from his instructed fellows, and the catching and throwing are always patent miracles of skill...
...Canadian Army has an ugly name: zombies (living dead men). Last week Canada's Pacific Coast commander, ruddy-faced Major General G. R. Pearkes (rhymes with quirks), who won the Victoria Cross in World War I, called in a World War II V.C. to help arouse a spark of fighting fervor in his zombies...
Thus perished Wingate of the bushy beard, originator, trainer, brains and spark plug of the Burma Raiders. Wingate was one of those talented originals that some alchemy of British culture occasionally produces. Like Clive of India, "Chinese" Gordon, Lawrence of Arabia (a distant cousin), Wingate was an eccentric and an artist in unorthodox military operations...
...Bridgetown Conference men met, talked and planned who had never seen one another before, though most of them lived in the same small region. Spark plug of the Conference, and chief U.S. delegate, was public-spirited Charles Taussig, a molasses importer and economist who has labored hard & well with the Commission. British and U.S. indifference, local antipathies must be overcome before any plans can be translated into action. But the planners were excited and hopeful. They were sketching a pattern for postwar cooperation among colonial powers...