Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dare. He climbed up the huge structure that supported a power line; it took an hour for him to reach the top, but from where we were below it seemed like an eternity. When he reached the top he waved confidently, then to our amazement there was a huge spark. Two hours later when the police brought his body down his metal rimmed glasses were molten slabs fused to his face. They made us see it. All that I remember distinctly of the incident in the absurd smirk on his face which was the only visible expression on his horribly...
Sophomore Rollin McLain came off the bench in the middle of the second half to spark Winthrop House's basketball team to a 70-69 victory over Yale's Davenport College. Winthrop was the only Harvard victor in the winter competition between the top Harvard House and Yale College in each sport...
After last year's disastrous 7-8 record and Harvard's first cellar finish, Marion said he was counting on his sophomores to spark the team to a position in the League's top three this year...
...Muriel Spark's novella was first published in America in The New Yorker. Mrs. Jay Allen's adaptation (of her own stage version) betrays its source at every turn. Its details are unfailingly accurate. The school is a chalk dust bowl; the staff is a frightened gaggle arranged in perfect pecking order; the girls throw themselves into adolescence as if they were breaking the sound barrier. But, as in much New Yorker fiction, while the parts promise a vision, the whole does not even provide a view...
Offensively, the sophomore line of Joe Cavanagh, Dan DeMichele, and Steve Owen continues to spark the Crimson attack. The line accounted for the first two goals against Cornell, with DeMichele getting the first and Owen the second. Cavanagh directed the potent charge, though Cornell held him scoreless--the first team to do that this year...