Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stark statistics of death and destruction, it was less than cataclysmic. But all the other ghetto uprisings have been the result of chance or bad judgment, some random local incident or emotional shock, such as Martin Luther King's murder, that put the spark to the fuse. Cleveland's battle was planned...
This is why the diggers believe in teaching by example, believing as they do that the spark exists within each person and only needs to be re-kindled. That can only happen by a blinding event generated by the sort of shared experience that is provided by the guerrilla theater of the life actors, music, dance...
...justice. As earlier courts have been dominated by such concerns as property rights, the building of the central government and slavery, Warren's court confronted, in an unusual number of cases, one overriding problem-the rights of the individual. In so doing, the court guaranteed that it would spark controversy. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said of the court in one of his celebrated remarks: "We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of the storm center...
...convulsion was part carnival, part anarchist spree, increasingly spurred on by Communists-but, more than anything, it was a spontaneous spark of national temper. Rebellious students, struggling only two weeks ago to prepare for the exams that would determine their place in French society, bent their energies to completely paralyzing France's universities and tying up many lower schools as well. Inspired by the students' example and glad of the chance to vent their own grievances, striking workers seized scores of factories in the worst epidemic of wildcat work stoppages since the days of Leon Blum...
Junior John Levin, regaining his championship form after six consecutive singles defeats, grabbed two impressive wins to spark the Crimson triumph. After crushing Yale captain Bob McCallum 6-2, 6-3 in singles, Levin joined Rocky Jarvis to stifle the Bulldogs' top doubles combination...