Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playing despite a bruised arm suffered when he was hit by a Chicago pitcher Thursday, Yastrezmaski drilled his second double of the game deep into the center field hole in the fifth inning to break a 2-2 tie and spark the Sox in a three-run rally...
...almost a concordat," such militants as LeRoi Jones and Willie Wright walked the streets of Newark to urge calm after King's murder. A few weeks before King's death, city hall and the Negro community agreed to a compromise in the urban-renewal dispute that helped spark last summer's uprising. City hall's price: the militants' promise to help preserve order. This new realism-on both sides-is seen by Kilson as the next phase of the civil rights movement, analogous to the compromises that other ethnic groups made with then-hostile majorities...
...Ministry of Commerce issued daily bulletins on the number of businesses "intervened," and newspapers and radio stations played up the wonders found in the possession of Cuba's last capitalists. In Matanzas province, Mechanic Domingo Riosa had the misfortune, for example, to be caught with light bulbs, Champion spark plugs and pistons for a Dodge engine...
...Globe'schange has not, of course, occurred spontaneously. The principal engineer has been editor Tom Winship. Whipple, without a trace of simulated loyalty, calls him "the spark--the dynamo--that has really accomplished the change...
...event to occur without intervention would have been to set the stage for a major incident. All the ingredients were there: a large group of young blacks gathered together, King's murderer still on the loose, and the super-charged excitement of Brown's performance to provide the spark. To close the show down, on the other hand, was equally dangerous. There might easily have been a riot if Brown were not permitted to perform because of an order from White's office. Instead, White used the event to his own advantage, making it a city-sponsored production, and televising...