Word: sparking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Captain Mike Gielen appears to be the spark for the Crimson. The junior point guard missed the season opener against the Redmen, and without him the Crimson press was lackluster and the squad shot a miserable 29.5 percent...
...might have started with a carelessly tossed cigarette that ignited trash in a machine room beneath the escalator. But when subway authorities inspected the room, they found it to be, as one said, "clean as a whistle." Other theories looked to the escalator mechanism, which might have produced a spark; or to the prewar wooden stairs, which might have come in contact with a cigarette or other flame. Officials found faults with both explanations. And although they received some telephone calls claiming sabotage, authorities were inclined to rule out both arson and terrorist attack. At week's end the only...
Then there was another time when this really high-placed source, whose name I have promised never to reveal, told me there was a huge story breaking in Cambridge at The Harvard Crimson. I stopped the presses. I sent my crack team up Route 95 North to spark some killer team coverage of the story...
Sophomore forward Derek Mills nailed a pair of crucial penalty kicks against the unlucky Tigers--the first tally to spark a Crimson comeback and the second to send the game into overtime. Sophomore Nick D'Onofrio finished it off with an OT goal as Harvard...
...should not underestimate this image advantage, especially after a kickoff debate in which George Bush finally proved he was indeed up for the '80s. The Vice President displayed a spark and a spunk that many doubted he possessed. After Pete du Pont questioned Bush's principles, Bush counterpoked with a derisiveness that extended to his rival's pet issue and little-used first name. "Pierre, let me help you on some of this," he said. "I think it's a nutty idea to fool around with the Social Security system." Moments later, Bush was holding his own in a finger...