Word: sparking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hoses in his house, then filed with the fire still miles away. Although the firestorm did not engulf his home, a burning cinder carried on the wind came through an open window, and all the water in his basins did nothing. With no one there to extinguish the spark, his house was gutted. And his open faucets so dropped the water pressure that when Mr. Forest climbed on his roof-hose in hand to battle the flames, no water would come out. His house burned to the ground before I got home...
Metzger may soon become something of a hero on college campuses. Students often find classic novels dense and difficult to follow. Perhaps Metzeer and his Bible will spark a trend throughout the publishing world. and it Reader's Digest editors judge 10 percent of Christ's words superfluous, they will; no doubt find mortal writers whose works could profit by a but of careful pruning Imagine the memorandum now making the round at Reader's Digest...
...remember such an ill-mannered assault on a President in the august East Room under the daunting gaze of George and Martha Washington. Second, Gary Richard Arnold, the congressional candidate from Santa Cruz, Calif, (slogan: LOOKS LIKE LENIN, TALKS LIKE LINCOLN), who provoked Reagan, was the perfect person to spark the Irish flint, suspected but rarely revealed publicly, beneath then smiling, benign Reagan surface...
Complaints about Harvard's freshman writing program regularly spark conversation in Yard dormitories and the Union, but an off-shoot of Expository Writing being offered for the first time this year is drawing rave reviews from instructors as well as students...
...officials said yesterday that Harvard's new Public Service Program a University funded program that College officials plan to unveil tomorrow could undermine its own attempts to spark similar public service activity among undergraduates...