Word: flare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taken together, these signs indicate a sharp flare-up in fighting in the Southwest Pacific may be near...
...mere coincidence that the Polish-Soviet controversy should flare up just at the time that Beck, who fled his country in its dark days together with his Commander in Chief, Smigly-Ridz, and his landlord friends, is emerging from obscurity. The question of the former provinces of eastern Poland is deeply involved with the desire of these feudalistic landowners to recapture their vast plantations in the east together with the masses of semi-enserfed labor, much of it of Russian origin, to work them. In spite of the huge plebiscite vote of the eastern provinces in 1939 to adhere...
Before he could send his four boats into the attack the darkness split apart. In the flare of big guns, the PT men saw what they had run into. Back of the destroyers were a battleship, three cruisers, at least seven destroyers...
...most bitter snarls and personal feuds of World War II. In the headlines of the newspapers and on the lips of Congressmen and administrators the dominant words of the week were "fight" and "revolt." The quarrel which had torn WPB apart was merely waiting for the next flare-up; Franklin Roosevelt was faced with Congressional revolt and a possible split in his own Democratic Party...
...slit trench, as he watched the infantry go forward, reported:" They stood up, held their guns easily, moved out of their trenches fanning out slightly so that the line was almost dead perfect in the moonlight as far as I could see. When they moved a bright green flare went up and dripped down behind, then two more and then another, and in that eerie light all you could see were soldiers shuffling toward the enemy. . . . There was little left in doubt except the speed with which Tripoli would be reached...