Word: sparkingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tension ran high in many areas, and in the normally peaceful town of Masan voting was still in progress when a disgruntled crowd raised the cry, "Dirty polls!" It was like a spark in dry straw. Suddenly, 200 angry citizens raced to a police station, set it afire, fled with captured weapons. Another mob, 2,500 strong, gathered before the town hall, stoned firemen, who vainly attempted to hook up their hoses to fight back. After tear gas failed, scores of police arrived from nearby Pusan. One lowered his carbine and fired into the screaming crowd, a signal that...
...quickly as the white South stamped out one spark, the brushfire caught in dozens of faraway communities. In five weeks, Negro "sit-in" demonstrations at segregated lunch counters had raced from North Carolina to South Carolina to Virginia to Florida to Tennessee and into Deep South Alabama. A unique protest against Jim Crow kindled by four college freshmen in Greensboro, N.C. (TIME, Feb. 22], the Gandhi-like Negro civil disobedience campaign, without any apparent central organized direction, continued to spread...
Behind the new teaching methods is a group sponsored by the National Science Foundation and spark-plugged by Professor Jerrold Zacharias of M.I.T. Says Zacharias: "Relativity and quantum mechanics are essential to understanding our universe. Quantum mechanics is not really modern physics. It is 34 years old, which is twice as old as a 17-year-old freshman. There was a revolution in 1926* and it's high time that we taught...
...Kubitschek ran in a three-way race against weak candidates; Lott is up against ex-Schoolteacher Janio Quadros, who in a few years rose from obscurity to become the new-broom governor of Sao Paulo, spark of Brazil's industrial boom. Quadros kicks off his shoes on the stump, spills ashes on his shirt and works the crowd to frenzy. His program is honest government, slashing bureaucracy, building roads and power plants, and turning private enterprise loose for progress. He describes his own nationalism as "grownup, vaccinated and old enough to vote." Quadros' main handicap: the streak...
...woman, something seems to be missing-in fact almost everything. Irene has left the church; yet she envies those women who can sleep with a man and achieve real contrition at confession. Her lover respects her passion for freedom; yet she is resentful because he has never shown a spark of jealousy, and fails to give their affair the color of romance. She is so wrapped up in her independence that she will not admit the womanly advantages of being a dependent...