Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along the Middle East's frontiers, bristling with weaponry, rolled a drumfire of incidents, any one of which could spark a new war. Israeli and Jordanian artillery dueled across the Jordan valley. Arab fedayeen guerrillas mortared a copper mine and three Israeli settlements, killing an 18-year-old army girl. In reprisal, Israelis strafed fedayeen positions, and jet-escorted helicopters blasted a Jordanian police car, killing three security men. From Lebanon, long the most peaceable of Israel's neighbors, Arab guerrillas rained rocket shells on the town of Qiryat Shemona and a nearby kibbutz, killing two civilians...
...shooting incident in which a black student was slightly wounded was widely considered to be the spark that set off the trouble. Charges against a white student, however, were dropped by police for lack of sufficient evidence...
Clearly, the U.S. had not given away any substantial military potential. U.S. power remains, and so, unfortunately, does the bases issue. Indeed, there was concern in Tokyo that once the cutbacks take effect, they might well spark new demonstrations intended to force more sweeping concessions...
...PUBLIC IMAGE, by Muriel Spark. A wickedly witty novel about a movie star who rises and falls on her public image...
Brandeis is pretty much an unknown club. Coached by K.C. Jones, the one-time Celtic great, the Judges are sure to run a lot and play a pressing defense. They have a 6-11 center who developed fast enough last season to spark them to victories in nine of their last 12 games...