Word: flare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Massie case was an unprecedented flare-up in Hawaiian race relations. But its melodramatic aspects awakened the first general interest that the people of the mainland U.S. had ever shown in their neglected Pacific paradise, 2,400 miles west of San Francisco's Golden Gate. The luridly revealed racial complexities of the territory became the subject of scandalized interest on the mainland, and touched off a deep national uneasiness. In the hysteria, fanned by U.S. editors playing up a gaudy story, and by the U.S. Navy, which saw its gold-buttoned dignity assailed, some U.S. newspapers even tacitly condoned...
...misfortunes rather than alibis. In their abbreviated condition they went out to win two recent ball games against more fortunately situated opponents. In one case they succeeded with a 7 to 0 upset; in the other, they missed by a single point. Such a mishap hardly warrants the flare-up of defeatism that has followed the loss to Dartmouth...
Worse than Death. The venom of communal bitterness had been thickened by the record flare-up of an old frontier practice-the abduction of tens of thousands of women. From one train arriving at Amritsar last week, 150 young girls had been taken. In Bikaner State, an official estimated that Sikhs fleeing there from Pakistan had lost 40 of their women. So grave had woman-stealing become that Pakistan's Prime Minister Lia-quat Ali Khan and India's Jawaharlal Nehru held special discussions about it last week; both Governments agreed to hunt out and return abducted women...
...potatoes' face this convention? The famed Red Question is not likely to flare into the open, although candidates for office are making quite clear the nature of their attitude toward alleged Communist Party divisionist tactics within AVC. At this premature point indications are that the so-called "party line" caucus controls far smaller minority influence than at last year's parley. There are predictions to date that its chief efforts will be concentrated upon the election of Norris Holferd of California to the post of chairman, and of Franklin Williams of New York, currently a National Planning Committee member...
...came, Alec joined the Navy - and so to Broadway. In 1942, in Boston to pick up and deliver home an L.C.I., which was delayed, he popped down to New York for a visit. Result: he got a speaking part in Terence Rattigan's RAFizzle (a hit in London) Flare Path...