Word: flare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to participants, the flare-up began at 11:30 p.m. when the 150 Princeton students standing in front of Cronin's decided to stage a Yard rally. They circled through the Yard and then poured into the Square, attracting a crowd which eventually numbered...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Terence Rattigan's Flare Path, with Deborah Kerr, Peter Lawford, Ian Hunter...
Though the twins seem old, cold and aloof, one of them recently blew its top. Last Dec. 7, says Luyten, "the fainter of the two stars was seen to flare up suddenly to twelve times its normal brilliance and to subside again in less than 20 min utes, a phenomenon which, so far, is unique among stars . . . The atomic explosion . . . amounted to the equivalent of a billion atomic bombs of the Hiroshima type...
...days after DiMaggio's flare-up at the reporters, he talked to them again, and this time sounded more like the old Di-Mag: "I definitely expect to be back in the line-up this season . . . These things have been cured before* and I guess it's just a matter of time...
...Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. utilized atomic energy to lay the two-ton cornerstone of its new building in Manhattan; a miniature nuclear reactor split ten U-235 atoms generating an electrical impulse which burned a ceremonial ribbon, touched off a magnesium flare and caused a chain hoist to lower the stone one foot into position...