Word: flare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reputedly Hollywood's top-salaried scenarist, Ben Heeht, has turned out both his money's worth and yours in the slick, competent seript of "Notorious." Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant act with a skill that at times flare into brilliance, and the whole thing, being a spy story, is enhanced on end by Alfred Hitchcock's direction...
...minutes later they knew that the plane would never cross the ocean. On a 1,600-foot hill, seven miles away, a fire billowed up silently and burned there as brilliantly as a signal flare...
...come along [TIME, Aug. 5] and add the possibility of a flare-up of the sun vaporizing the world. Here, I draw the line...
Such explosions, Coles says, would not necessarily mean the end of the world. Astronomers are betting on the sun to do that job. They have been made more & more uneasy by the number of novae in the universe - stars which, for some unknown reason, suddenly flare up to thousands of times their normal brilliance...
...nova-like flare-up of the sun might happen tomorrow." If it did, the sunny side of the earth would be burned to a crisp in half an hour, the oceans would boil away in live steam. Within a few days the world would be vapor...