Word: flare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loophole for Hope. The assassination of Razmara and fanatic threats of other killings would not have had so spectacular an effect on the Majlis if anti-British feeling had not been smoldering for years in Iran. It began to flare two years ago when Sir William Fraser, board chairman of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (which has a concession for all oil production in southern Iran), offered to double the royalties paid to the Iranian government...
...epidemic appears annually about this time but the flare-up this time is "far more severe than most," according to Cass...
Lambert took a ride in a flare plane, an elderly, two-engine relic of World War II. Not long after the coppery Korean sunset had disappeared, the pilot called a ground station: "Hello, Bandbox. Hello, Bandbox. This is Firefly One, Firefly...
Firefly One's crew dropped the flares through three-foot metal tubes, ripping off a strip of white webbing that ignited each flare and opened its parachute. Suddenly the valley below, surrounded by paddy fields striding up sharp-shadowed mountains, leaped into garish light. Bandbox identified the target-an east-west ridge with a saddle in the middle-and Firefly called down an Invader. The Invader pilot, however, could not find the target ridge. "Okay, boy," said Firefly, 'Til turn on my landing lights and point...
...flipped a switch, and a beam of strong light bore down through the flare-light. "Roger, Firefly, Roger," said the Invader pilot. He dived through winking flashes of small-arms fire and dropped two tanks of napalm on the hill, which burst into flame. "That's good, that's good, Firefly," exulted Bandbox. "That's right in there. Give 'em a few more...