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Word: sparkly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the disappointing loss there was at least one bright spot for Harvard. Guard Tamar Atinc shot four-for-nine as she came off the bench to spark the lagging Crimson offense with outside buckets in the second half...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Springfield Deals Crimson Women Double Loss | 12/16/1977 | See Source »

Although the 400 medley relay of Gina Stuart, Diana Borden, Sharon Beckman, and Sherry Lubbers were touched out at the finish, their strong showing seemed to spark the team from the effects of their long bus ride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Swimmers Submerge UMass; Two Team Records Set in 75-56 Win | 12/14/1977 | See Source »

...local managers some autonomy. The result so far has been confusion. The chain's expensive and somewhat mystifying Price and Pride ad campaign has been aimed primarily not at luring shoppers into the stores but at bucking up the spirits of workers. So far it has failed to spark much excitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Price and Pride on the Skids | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...with ennui and regret that she did not make him younger, handsomer, more dashing. Finally, however, she is gracious. "As life goes on, it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented," she writes. "Presumably you have learned literary humility. If I could write like Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark or Graham Greene, I should jump to high heaven with delight, but I know that I can't." This disarming passage ends with a motto that also fits this modest, agreeable book. Dame Agatha recalls a plate on her nursery wall, "which I think I must have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grande Dame | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...also unload a rocket with both his slap shot and his wrist shot. The Edmonton, Alberta, native tallied for eight goals and five assists in the 1976-77 campaign. If he improves control of his shot, last year's leader in penalty minutes could add a spark to Harvard's goal-scoring attack...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Hockey Season Begins--At Last! | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

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