Word: flare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovery by Shapley and his Harvard colleagues of the periodic flare-up of Proxima Centauri, the star nearest the earth (25 trillion miles). These explosive flashes double the intensity of the star, which is normally 10,000 times brighter than...
...shot ahead along the die-straight highway at 80 m.p.h., leaving his escort of police motorcycles and official limousines far behind. Scelba was racing into the "triangle of death," a section of Emilia in northern Italy, the notorious Red stronghold where scores of men have been killed in violent flare-ups between Communists and antiCommunists. There were plenty of Reds who would have liked to kill Minister Scelba himself...
...somewhat used to wars, even if they wished they were not-seemed to feel that any other attitude would have seemed forced, and perhaps even a little silly. The U.S. citizen of 1950 had an idea that he would be lucky if the nasty business in Korea did not flare into something immeasurably worse and he hoped his Government was diligently preparing for the worst. But meanwhile he proposed to eat steak and put some more miles on his new car. If there was anything else to be done, he figured, it was up to Washington to tell...
...general quarters sent all hands to their battle stations. The Juneau was 4,000 yards offshore and the lights of trucks moving along coastal roads in enemy-held South Korea could be seen with the naked eye. One of the Juneau's forward guns cracked sharply and a flare-shell sped into the night. A few seconds later a brilliant white light floated gracefully over the beach toward low hills. The five-inchers pounded for a few minutes and then all was dark and silent again. The Juneau swung about and cruised south for a few minutes, then north...
...wander [but] amid the joy over peace it is all too easy to forget that one has to do something to preserve peace. Today one can discuss [world affairs] at complete ease in a bathing suit on the beach or floating in a fat inner tube . . . Should excitable natures flare up during the discussion, there is a simple solution-jump in the water...