Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specter of fire in a man-carrying spacecraft has long haunted NASA scientists. In the pure-oxygen cabin atmospheres of U.S. craft, it seemed all too probable that a random spark from electrical equipment or insulation overheated by a short circuit might touch off fires that would blaze with explosive fury...
...read; in many cases they are more powerful weapons than ever. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring awakened the world to the dangers of the improper uses of insecticides and was a work of high literary quality as well. Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any..Speed was the spark plug that started major safety reforms in the automobile industry. Particularly among the young, paperbacks are used in a direct, intimate way-passages underlined, pages torn out according to need. That was unheard of a couple of generations ago, when books were still relatively scarce and semi-sacred objects...
...only spark came at the beginning as Howie Henjyoji (123) pinned Brod Browsky in the third period -- and even Henjyoji was losing, 4-2, at the time...
...past week baseball pundits had been speculating that he would go to last year's 10th place Yankees and spark that fallen club from its doldrums...
...engineers of that conflict, Secretary Robert McNamara, prospectively seemed to be a productive tactic. However, the Secretary's ungratifying offer to answer two questions was only outdone in its vacuousness by the questions asked and the jeers which denied him the opportunity to respond. The left was given a spark and it hurriedly suffocated it with that barrage of rhetoric it so self-righteously castigates the Johnson Administration for spewing. This isn't to blame all those who were in attendance for there were many that were civil...