Word: sparks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Electrical charges accumulate in clouds, positive at the top, negative on the bottom. A spark bursts through the air to another cloud or to the earth-lightning. First comes a faint leader stroke, then a huge discharge builds upward from the earth. The slender core (about the thickness of a finger) explodes into a column of fire much greater in diameter. As this heated air cools and contracts, other air rushes in to fill the space. This sudden disturbance makes the thunderclap...
...with the Ditch. The pro-ditchers would not be downed, and they had new support. Their big ace was none other than Senator Bridges. His chilly constituents had convinced him. Last week he spark-plugged a Senate move to override the House action, to attach the Florida barge-canal appropriation to a War Department appropriations bill...
...task force a full-fledged air force. Its designation: the Fourteenth.* The order took the China Air Task Force from under the control of Brigadier General Bissell, commander of the Tenth (India). Thus ended a jarring relationship between him and Chennault which had struck many a dangerous spark of discord (TIME...
...frequent baskets by Cameron and Garelick were a big help to Leverett in winning the House championship, while Spark's fine defensive play was an important factor in Kirkland's finishing in second place...
...they had time, its ten members might have toasted their accomplishments all night. They had served as watchdog, spotlight, conscience and spark plug to the economic war-behind-the-lines. They had prodded Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones into building synthetic-rubber plants, bludgeoned the President into killing off doddering old SPAB and setting...