Word: sparking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scholarly grasp of anyone who tries to completely recapture the past. At one point, Braithwaite says in an aside: "I know this. Sometimes the past may be a greased pig; sometimes a bear in its den; and sometimes merely the flash of a parrot, two mocking eyes that spark at you from the forest." Braithwaite's--and the novel's--wisdom lies in his realization that the overgrown byways of literary history may not lead anywhere in particular, but the stroll itself yields immeasurable self-understanding. He does find many guises of his subject along the way, just...
Benning who stands just two assists short of the Harvard record for a defenseman, has helped spark a unit that has connected on over 33 percent of its chances...
...Champion Spark Plug, Toledo, Ohio...
South African operations: According to company spokesman Tony Bouger, Champion owns a plant in South Africa which makes spark plugs for sale in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The plant employs 94 people, 64 of whom are Black, Bouger said...
...event is also an illconceived and illegitimate use of Harvard's funds. We are after all in a neoconservative era (meaning many new middle-class white folks display paranoid-style antipathy toward new Black social mobility) and such short-sighted ethnic-hiving off of Alumni activity by Blacks could spark a similar ethnic-hiving off of Alumni activity by other ethnic groups (Italians, Irish, Poles, Jews and alas even WASPS). The zero-sum or foreclosure power game around Harvard's resources that flows from this infantile parochial approach to Alumni status at Harvard cannot, I assure the ethnocentric novices...