Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Women are no problem in such places as the AC Spark Plug in Flint, which has employed women for years, easily converted men & women alike to machine-gun making. Briggs Mfg. Co. in Detroit simply took women from the upholstering department, taught them to put fabric on bomber wings and rivet framework...
...Dallas, Tex. raised $40,150 in ten days, spark-plugged by its famed Dick Andrade...
Equally as satisfying is it to evoke a spark of awakened interest by playing a good jazz record for someone with a well-developed Philistine scorn who wonders how the Harvard Crimson can publish ten or twelve inches on "Swing" every week. Only last week I detected signs of just such a conversion after playing some records of instrumental blues for someone who had not suspected that that word "Jazz" could embrace music of such a high quality...
...Washington, fed to the back teeth with boards and planners, this trio looked good, seemed more like spark plugs than a metaphysical brain trust...
...Critic Virgil Thomson labeled it "a secular cantata." The music seesawed in a narrow range between lyrical sweetness and sonorous majesty, soaring but once to fervent heights. Yet the opera could not be dismissed as a flop: it was fashioned with expertness, flavored with individuality, imbued with an inner spark...