Word: flare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group, Southerners insisted that Negroes in uniform keep strictly to the Jim Crow laws. Crowded buses, where the races were forced to mingle, became the scene of ugly flare-ups. In some sections bus drivers toted guns. The South was prepared to back up its Jim Crow laws with force. On at least one occasion an "uppity" Negro soldier bus-rider was shot dead...
...experimental attack, with new planes, the show went off in good style. Planes went in singly; there were no formations. The operation was timed as a night strike, hitting shortly before midnight. No flares were used. Eight lead planes hit first, and the fires they set were admirable flare markers for the rest...
Private Vincent Forret wrote: "We get off the trucks and about that time a red flare was shot in the air by the enemy...
Lips No, Eyes Yes. Others beside R. J. Thomas were worried about the black eye labor was getting from such strike flare-ups. In San Francisco, Harry Bridges, who made a career out of striking until Russia got into the war, and has made a career out of not striking since, offered to pledge his warehousemen's union to no strikes even after...
...people die of hydrophobia, because nearly all those infected get the Pasteur injections in time. The Public Health Service says that the current rabies outbreak is no worse than usual-so far. But it is potentially more dangerous because of the wartime increase in stray dogs. Rabies flare-ups are concentrated where busy working people let dogs run all day and where migrant populations leave their dogs behind them...