Word: sparking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says Mary, "and your body's been running at 150 miles an hour for days." One night, after freebasing in the rear of her van, they took some Quaaludes and passed out, leaving an unlit propane torch with its nozzle open-creating a risk that a stray spark could ignite the propane and blow...
LOITERING WITH INTENT by Muriel Spark Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 217 pages...
...threat to stability is internal, not external. Any number of events-the emergence of another Biko, an unforeseen economic downturn that would send black workers into the streets, harassment of a symbolic figure like Bishop Tutu - could spark further civil disorder...
...million. The Rebbetzin's first show dealt with the Nazi Holocaust. Said Jungreis, who spent a year in Bergen-Belsen: "We must learn to speak of the unspeakable, to answer the unanswerable. We are a nation that actually descended into the abyss of hell and yet retained a spark of divinity...
...otherwise will occur gradually, and the incorporation of minorities that seems likely to occur even more slowly. Based on the beated debate over small steps in that direction, like the minority and women faculty study that provoked such sharp disagreement this winter, such issues seem likely to continue to spark controversy indefinitely...