Word: flare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between flare-ups, the committeemen listened to lectures on education, agriculture, highway safety, taxes, fishing and the ladies' handbag industry. At last they faced the most explosive subject of all: civil rights...
...stood out to sea under a cone of white light from the searchlights of her destroyer escorts. Precisely at midnight (the deadline for Britain's mandate over Palestine), she passed the three-mile limit of Palestine's territorial waters. From Royal Navy headquarters atop Mount Carmel a flare shot up, arched slowly, and fell flaming among the tall dark cypresses on the mountain slope. A few British troops would remain in Palestine until August. But the British mandate had ended...
...Yale athletic director said that he and William J. Bingham '16 would probably confer with Asa Bushnell, Commissioner of the EIL, in an effort to work out some plan that would prevent future flare-ups. A rotation system, Kiphuth said, might counteract the difficulties imposed by varying rules interpretations in different areas...
...more than an hour late, slid to an unscheduled stop. Bitter cold (-35°) had forced down steam in the engine's boilers; it would take time to get it up again. Because No. 21 was following on the same track, a brakeman set out to light warning flares and set torpedoes. But No. 21, pounding through the early morning fog, was dreadfully close behind. Before the brakeman could light a flare, it had plowed into...
...Colder. Trees, which gleamed like great crystal chandeliers and creaked like windmills, broke down by the thousands under their enormous loads of ice. Sagging power and telephone lines were carried away by crashing limbs. In hundreds of towns the night sky was lit by the weird blue flash and flare of high-voltage electricity. Lights went out, telephones went dead and electrically operated oil burners stopped running. Harassed storekeepers were deluged with demands for candles and axes...