Word: flare
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...national brands as Ex-Lax, Anacin, and Drene shampoo, left other prices unchanged. One Atlanta jewelry store caught the fever, cut diamond prices as much as 50%. Even in New York City, the war had simmered down to smaller price cuts, usually in cheaper lines. But there were still flare-ups. Union Square's S. Klein cut men's suits and women's dresses, was swamped with customers. In eight minutes, Klein's sold 1,000 two-pants men's suits at $19.95. In half an hour, 2,000 women's dresses...
There was one other flare-up, but it soon fizzled. Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, who had got his fingers burned when he tried to compel General Omar Bradley to repeat confidential conversations with the President, edged back to the subject with long tongs in his hand. Acheson likewise refused. "I am under direct instructions of the President of the U.S. not to repeat what was said at these meetings at his office," he said...
...worst, if disorders flare up in Iran as a result of nationalization, the Russians may intervene, grab the oil, even unleash World War III. The Russians would not necessarily have to use the Red army to move into Iran; the northern border province of Azerbaijan (which the Russians tried to annex in 1946) might be used by Moscow to set up a "native Iranian" Communist regime...
...Such induced tuberculosis is mild at first and may stay dormant for years, then flare up as a serious disease...
...Eban's faint failed to influence the Council: while he was out, it adopted the measure 10-0, with Russia abstaining. The resolution ordered Israel to 1) suspend work on its project to drain Hula swamp in the demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria, which had caused the flare-up, 2) return Arabs whom it had deported from the area to make room for Jewish settlers. The sponsors of the resolution (U.S., Britain, France and Turkey) made it clear that they only wanted to postpone the Hula project until Syrian interests could be safeguarded. This week, Israeli tractors were...