Word: sparking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distinct improvement over the variable climate and other distractions of, say, the drive-in theater and dead-end street. Reports the magazine: "Parents and preachers, roused by a badly bungled moral code, banned bundling; better heating in larger homes cooled it. Bundling has been rekindled by a spark from a new moral code." Said the president of the Pottstown bundlers: "In many colleges, boys and girls today are allowed in the dormitories without supervision. Surely our conduct is far above this." Concludes Christianity Today: "Perhaps it is -if bundlers abed by the rules...
...denied his good intentions, most even thought he was "smart," yet nowhere did we find a spark of belief that New York's youthful Mayor could solve even the most basic of the city's problems...
Since the Holy Cross game, Farenti has been using these techniques in the games he's played to spark the defense. "I feel I'm contributing to the electricity of the team in the huddle," he said...
...moderate Cambridge Housing Convention-have been organizing lower income residents around the housing issue. This organizing is in itself notable, since lower-income residents in Cambridge-as in most other cities have seldom generated many or effective voluntary organizations. The depth of the housing crisis has provided a spark for such organizing; the Peace and Freedom radicals, on one hand, and young anti-poverty staffers on the other have been rushing...
...orchestrated street demonstrations in Arab capitals, few experts expected a major conflagration. Part of the world, at least, seemed to be learning to live less nervously with the Arab-Israeli conflict. Last spring President Nixon described the Middle East as a "powder keg," needing only the tiniest spark to explode. Last week, however, Washington viewed the current situation coolly, and the State Department said merely that it was counseling "restraint" to both sides. Moscow made no comment publicly, but U.S. diplomats believe that the Soviets have no interest in escalating hostilities and risking a fresh beating for their Arab clients...