Word: sparking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just love sports," Martin said. "I just get excited playing [them]. In high school, people always used to call me the spark plug...
Martin is again co-captain on the women's basketball team Kleinfelder also describes her as the spark plug of the cagers' offense. Yet the three years that she has labored on the basketball team here, she has never had the satisfaction of witnessing her team approach a .500 clip. This year, the hoopsters are an abominable...
...spark for the final confrontation was no conflict between principles, but rather a duel between personalities: Robinson and Woodbury, two prominent members of the class. Robinson was an outstanding scholar, a prominent and well-liked member of the class's unruly majority. Woodbury was a "Black"--an informer and, an avowed enemy of Robinson...
...night turned aside 30 Cornell shots and shut the Big Red out over the game's last 46:47 to spark the Harvard come back...
...these and other objects on display represent only 3% of the Smithsonian's holdings. Out of sight, filling every nook and cranny of space, is a decidedly odder assortment of things-100,000 bats (including 6,629 vampires), 2,300 spark plugs, 24,797 woodpeckers, 718,605 pieces of pottery, 16,694 baskets, 82,615 fleas, 12,000 arctic fishing tools, 14,300 sea sponges, 6,012 animal pelts, 2,587 musical instruments, ten specimens of dinosaur excrement and a male gorilla preserved in formaldehyde...