Word: flare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jackal howled as the Israeli troops fanned out to feint at the Egyptian flanks. As a flare burst over the 1,400-ft. hilltop, the Jewish infantry crawled past boulders to the attack. It was a hand-to-hand bayonet fight. The Egyptians resisted fiercely, and the hilltop did not fall until past midnight. By that time an Egyptian battalion spearheaded by eight tanks rolled up from the rear to counterattack. The Israelis said they knocked out two tanks before withdrawing downhill and into their own territory. They listed five dead, 18 wounded. They claimed 50 Egyptians killed, 49 taken...
General George and four other executives went out in the 1953 flare-up, forcing Hughes to move in fresh executive talent. In as general manager ten months ago went Laurence Hyland, an able onetime Bendix executive with plenty of drive to push both research and production, keep building up the staff. Since 1949, Hughes Aircraft's payroll has jumped from 750 to over 20,000; the research and development division alone has 2,000 topflight men against less than 100 seven years ago; one out of every ten scientists and engineers holds a Ph.D., one of every four...
September came to California with a searing surge of heat and threat of fire. From the coast hills clear up to timberline in the High Sierras, timber and brush were crackling dry and ready to flare like spilled gunpowder. Then electric storms came, and lightning lit the kindling; within ten days, 400 big and small fires flared across the countryside. By last week, when rain fell, some 300,000 acres had been charred to ashes by California's most disastrous fires in 30 years...
...suddenly as it started, the flare of passion subsided; the men facing each other beneath the dazzling chandeliers were professionals who could not afford the easy-out of strong feelings. Nikita Khrushchev, under control again, switched from strong words to soft. One should bury memories of the past, he said, because vengeance is not a good adviser; there must be good relations between Russians and Germans. A cold correctness replaced the honest heat of emotion. When the delegates strode out of the palace that day, Adenauer's face was grim. So far the conference, said a German, had produced...
...flare-up of Greco-Turkish tension was a reminder of the days when thousands upon thousands of Greeks and Turks lost their lives in bloody conflict after World War I. NATO officers have always been careful not to let Greek and Turkish units meet in mock combat, for fear that they might begin firing in earnest. Now that Greece was embroiled with both Britain and Turkey, the Greeks last week prudently decided to withdraw all their forces from NATO's scheduled war games in the Mediterranean...