Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Bob Cousy hung up his sneakers at the end of last season, pessimists predicted a dark future for the team he left behind. "Cooz" was the playmaker the spark plug, the bandy-legged magician who had led the Boston Celtics to five straight National Basketball Association championships. His ball hawking inspired the Boston defense, his passes launched the fast break, his dribbling killed the clock. With Cousy the Celtics were unbeatable, but without him, the pundits predicted, they would be just another ball club. But what a ball club...
...Over 2500 volunteer man-hours are going into this campaign," Murdock said. "You solicitors must get to everyone in your entries, and you House captains must provide the spark needed to make this thing...
...will be missing the services of one of their most effective backs, Leo Swift. Swift was injured last week against Penn. Aside from Swift's absence, the starting backfield remains intact. John McCluskie, who has been the team's offensive spark-plug, will start at quarterback with George Nevill and James Halpern at the half-back slots. Askold Kohimann will be at fullback...
...week in Saigon began and ended with death. At its start, another Buddhist, the seventh, chose the now notorious way of protest against President Ngo Dinh Diem's regime. Soaked in gasoline, he rode up to a crowded square, struck a spark, and went up in flames before anyone could stop him. At week's end, Diem himself lay dead alongside his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. The two men who had fought so long and so stubbornly-against Communism, against their critics, against the Buddhist demonstrators-had been consumed by a fire more slowly and carefully prepared...
...does spark one sizzling scene of class animus at a drunken, brawling Christmas party. The wing commander (Dallas Cavell), a jowly autocrat who regards the conscripts as disgusting animals and wants to see them make a loutish display of themselves, calls for some rock-'n'-roll music. Pip stops the music and coaxes one of the conscripts to sing The Cutty Wren, an old folk song of peasant revolt. It begins with the stilly calm of a Christmas carol, but as the stanzas become more aggressive, the conscripts improvise a louder and louder beat of spoon on glass...