Word: sparking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mystery writers are especially prone to follow an exceptional early work with loads of lesser stories. Ellery Queen's later books, or, more recently, the sorry sequels Gregory Mcdonald wrote for Fletch, show writers struggling to regain the spark they had the first time around...
Harvard, like Penn, will look to two players to spark its attack Senior Co-Captains Joe Carrabino and Bob Ferry will lead a Harvard club that's been slumping of late...
...Katz also point out that the Brown protests are not as isolated as their campus seems. He says Northwestern, Michigan, Tufts, UMass-Amherst and Stanford all protested CIA on-campus recruitment. The Brown activists say a group of core activists "provide the spark" which move people to action...
...lead to a bitter struggle between the Shi'ite majority and the Sunni Muslim and Christian minorities, not to mention the remaining Palestinian civilian population. In recent weeks, Shi'ite radicals have killed more than a dozen southern Lebanese as alleged collaborators with the Israelis. The Israeli pullback could spark a bloodier and more widespread settling of Lebanese scores. Precisely such an explosion took place between Lebanon's Christian and Druze militias following Israel's September 1983 withdrawal from the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut. Hundreds of Lebanese were killed and more than 100,000 were left homeless...
DIED. John Rock, 94, flinty, pioneering obstetrician-gynecologist who played the key role in developing, testing and popularizing the birth control pill, which helped spark a revolution in sexual mores, population control and the status of women; of a heart attack; in Peterborough, N.H. A researcher in human reproduction who spent the first two-thirds of his career trying to help women overcome infertility, he became alarmed at the specter of world overpopulation and began working on a hormonal birth control method in the 1950s with Biologists Gregory Pincus and Min-chueh Chang. Because the pill they developed used...