Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gallon tank of diesel fuel, used to test the big ship's generators. (Said Pipe Fitter Solomon Fried: it was like a "carom shot at billiards.") The fuel gushed out over the hangar deck, poured down a bomb elevator well to the deck below. There a spark from a welder's torch set it afire. Lieut. Milano tried to plug the flow, then yelled for workmen to call the Navy Yard fire department. Moments later he peered through a cable hole toward the bomb elevator and "saw orange." He ordered the word passed to all hands to abandon...
...METAMORPHOSIS OF THE GODS, by André Malraux. With impressive erudition and zeal, Malraux tries to elevate the world's great art to the level of religion. He is persuasive enough when he finds the "spark of the divine" in religious art, less successful when he looks for it in secular painting. But few art critics have ever been more fervent in uncovering the meaning behind the artist's intention...
...youth of the present team (only one senior and four lettermen) that is its biggest advantage and also its biggest liability. Huntling sophomores, hungry for regular positions, can give a team the spark that often makes up for a lack of talent, but they also make many mistakes that lose ball games...
...movie is full of inconsistencies. Jenny, the prostitute who turns Mack over to the police, is never really a part of the story, and was kept only because of the exigencies of the plot, a spark of loyalty to the original version, and Lotte Lenya's availability. And Lenya sings her one song with such grace and pathos that she steals the movie...
...Away Bird, by Muriel Spark. In the title novella and in ten accompanying short stories-mostly semi-supernatural suspense tales-the talented Scottish novelist displays her deft style and consummate con-woman skill in unmasking the hoaxing face of the world...