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Word: sparking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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With injured starters Suzie Tapson and Pascale Jean-Louis on the sidelines, Harvard had to rely on the play of its bench. The reserves provided the spark to give the hosts the third game and a close overall match against one of the East's most powerful squads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nazarene Tops Spikers; Fans Help Visiting Team | 10/26/1985 | See Source »

...stopped in towns that we had visited last year and found they were still doing things. Last year's ride hadn't just been one spark," Seery said...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Bicyclists Complete Trip To Fight World Hunger | 8/13/1985 | See Source »

Three referenda questions likely to be on this November's ballot should also spark considerable controversy. One calls for the discontinuation of deadly nerve gas testing within city limits; the second deals with pornography as a form of sexual discrimination; and the third asks residents to voice their opposition to Harvard's real estate practices in the city...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: A City With a Mind All Its Own | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

...that new city councilor is Alfred W. LaRosa--as observers are predicting--about with another Italian from East Cambridge by the name of Vellucci could spark its share of fireworks come November...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Mayor's Death Sparks Political Jockeying | 6/28/1985 | See Source »

...support of South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, has helped spark a recent flurry of state and local divestment legislation in the U.S. Tutu scoffs at Americans who say they are concerned about how economic cutoffs might affect blacks in South Africa. "People ought ( to stop using us as alibis for not doing what they know they ought to do," he says. Many other black leaders agree. "Any movement toward the isolation of apartheid is a welcome development," says Neo Mnumazana, observer at the U.N. from the African National Congress, a black coalition party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not a Black and White Issue | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

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