Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with an attache case too. You know, they copy everything we do. After the doors of the elevator opened, we accidentally bumped into each other. He leaped aside and said, 'After you. As a responsible member of the white community, I wouldn't want to set a spark to that smoldering resentment that's been harbored in the Negro community for over a hundred years.' I leaped aside and said, 'No, no, after you, because as a responsible member of the Negro community, I recognize the danger of offending old friends in the white community...
...added qualification of being a girl changed everything. As I have tried to describe, my sex attracted supporters like a flag of revolution, providing the spark which ignited whatever sort of revolution they were thinking about. My most vehemently revolutionary friends took the ultimate defeat the hardest--some even sent me anonymous accusations of betrayal when I refused to press on to the bitter...
...Avis Chairman Robert C. Townsend, who coined the "We Try Harder" slogan that has helped make No. 2 Avis a much stronger competitor for first-place Hertz. Said he: "At first, I wondered how a small company could be acquired by a large one without losing some of its spark. But now I'm enthusiastic. We'll try even harder...
...pseudo-sociology begins soberly enough with Philosopher Bertrand Rusell interviewing a band of clean-shaven war babies "who don't want to belong to any mass society; they want to be different." Different they are. In Italy, mindless young things don their party best and spark the fun at a swank resort by butchering a pig. "Will they do it again?" asks the narrator with elaborate seriousness. "If so, then the pig died in vain." In Switzerland, mixed nude skiing ap pears to be the latest kick. France has orgiastic "happenings," a homosexual nightclub, and parachutists with a marked...
...first question, sharpened by a proposal made at the last meeting by Giles Constable, associate professor of History, will undoubtedly spark the most controversy. Constable's idea of a simple distribution requirement received enthusiastic applause from the Faculty, but, said Dean Ford, "no one knows yet who will support the proposal or in fact precisely what form it will take...