Word: flare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Puzzled, their chief approached the head of the six-man government team from Isfahan. "Who are you? What is all this about?" he asked. Beside his white tent, the government man explained: Isfahan province is annually plagued by smallpox; the government* was determined to halt its spread and annual flare-ups caused by unvaccinated nomads like the Bakhtiari. The tribesman was amazed that the great, remote world of big government could be interested in his health. At first he hesitated, but as the loudspeaker took up the refrain, "Better one small scar on your arm than a lot of pocks...
...every economic zigzag. But FRB also sees signs that its credit medicine is working effectively. Such sensitive barometers as daily spot-commodity prices have been edging downward, especially in scrap steel and copper. Furthermore, the volatile money market seems to be adjusting to the new climate after a sharp flare-up in April immediately following the latest hike in discount rates to Federal Reserve member banks. Interest rates on short-term (up to 90 days) Treasury bills, which jumped from 2.17% at the end of March to 2.78% at the end of April, are settling down again, and long-term...
...Crown) Brown the chance to mount a kind of two-front war novel in which the rasp of conflicting personalities can be heard above the whine of shells. The psychological combat in Kings Go Forth is sometimes emotionally blurred, though deeply felt, but the scenes of military combat flare across the pages as vividly as tracers stabbing the night...
...storm reached Boston one day too late to make Irish tempers flare again. The Boston St. Patrick's Day parade marched Saturday, only 21 days late, but several hours before the heavy snowfall began...
...flare, recorded last month, set a record for all such occurrences observed. The movies were taken with a coronograph, a special telescopic instrument, at the Air Force's Sacramento Observatory in New Mexico...