Word: flare
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bomber whipped over the camouflaged decoys on the approach to the Reich's capital and planted its bombs in the midst of fires set by others ahead of it. When his bomber was 60 miles away on the trip home he could still see the red flare of Berlin's fires...
Ever since Wagner's death, the excitement of hearing and reviewing new music has been dying out, and, with the exception of a politically inspired flare-up in Shostakovitch's case, is almost dead. Gilman of the Herald Tribune, who died a couple of years ago, was the last survivor of the great days of Wagner controversy when a fashionable New York club had to put up signs to the effect that discussions of politics and Wagner were forbidden in the smoking room. As late as the summer of '39 Gilman wrote about a Wagner performance in the Tribune...
Lucky indeed is the U.S. small businessman who neatly straddled war problems and priorities with the simple formula of 50% peace business, 50% war business. Such a man is Long Island Girdlemaker Max Kops, whose Nemo Corset Co. last week was making WAAC girdles, Army flare parachutes and Medical Corps supplies on one hand, doing a flourishing peacetime business on the other...
...elastic shortage mildly upset peacetime business and the Medical Corps was hunting for someone to make quantities of tourniquets, straps, tapes, etc. Then it picked up orders for 60,000 WAAC girdles (flesh-tan, 280 sq. in. of elastic, four 2½-in. garters), some 50,000 Army flare parachutes to boot...
...Frankly we are scared." As one competent Army doctor puts it: "Pneumonitis is a virus disease, we believe, and frankly we are scared to death of any virus disease because we never know when its virulence will flare up and make it a real killer. We are scared of pneumonitis not because of what it has done but because we don't know .what it can do, or what we can do to stop...