Word: sparking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game average. The heavily recruited alumnus of legendary DeMatha High School in Maryland drew awed gasps from fans around the league for his deadly 15-ft. jumper, and he improved his ball handling from shaky to dependable b midseason. Yet be too stopped just short of providing the timely spark the Crimson would have needed to push past Penn. Princeton and Columbia...
...playing every game as an invaluable sixth man for the World Champion Boston Celtics, and he has earned the reputation in Bean-town that he enjoyed in Detroit. His energy and good humor on and off the court have prompted the Boston press to dub him the Celtic's spark plug...
...argued the need for criminal justice reform after Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted and sentenced to death. In 1933 he engineered John Maynard Keynes' open letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt in the New York Times, urging the President to forsake balancing the budget and adopt deficit spending to spark the economy, a position favored by Brandeis...
Harvard Athletic Director John Reardon said yesterday he's resigned to the verdict: "We had a technical failure: we failed to meet the rules," That technical error may spark a lightening of rules to prevent a similar mishap in the future, but for the wrestling squad, it means they'll have to wait another year to prove that they deserved the little...
Annaud's quest to ignite this Fire was a noble one. But the film was always likely to spark giggles. Better then to have entrusted it to a prodigious visionary like Werner Herzog, whose best films cut like a sorcerer's scimitar through the legendary past. Herzog might have turned Quest for Fire into a dizzyingly lyrical poem. What Annaud and Brach have provided is a coffee-table textbook...