Word: flare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third undergraduate hit in as many weeks sent last night's audience upstairs to the famous Pudding after-the-show cabaret humming good tunes and roaring at the mere thought of Theodore Allegretti. Recent patrons of Sanders Theatre probably remember Allegretti as an intense young man with a flare for speechifying. But it is as a comedian, occasionally whimsical and droll but usually nothing short of hilarious, that he stands out in a show which is full of entertainment value, from book and music on down through sets and costumes...
...worst recent labor flare-up came last fortnight at Cawnpore, where militant Communist-and Socialist-led workers have developed some new bargaining techniques. They locked a labor inspector in an office and made a factory manager stand bareheaded in the sun for four hours until he agreed to reinstate four discharged employees. When the district magistrate ordered the arrest of 100 labor leaders, workers marched in protest, women in front. Police used lathis. Workers threw stones. When the police opened fire, six were killed. Last week 100,000 Cawnpore workers were still...
...flare-up came after Attorney General Tom Clark told the court that Lewis' scorning of a Federal Court order, designed to head off last November's coal strike, was an insult to the United States and an invitation to 'mob rule...
...Good Men Are Hard To Find," by James B. O'Connell, and for the most part it is an excellent story. Apparently suggested by some of the author's own experience, it tells its tale of an accidental shooting and resulting death in China during the war with a flare for smart phraseology, and only occasionally lapses into what an English A instructor might mark with one of his handy labels such as jargon or fine-writing. The rest of the stories range from pretty good to pretty bad, and point up the need for "Radditudes" to jazz...
...left wing struck first, then the nose, which broke off and threw the pilot and copilot clear. The rest of the plane hurtled on, scattering its guts, plowing a deep rut in the mushy land. Watchers on Rineanna heard a thunderous crash as the Star hit, saw the flare of the gasoline.fire reach high into the night...