Word: flare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bird flew aimlessly. Dr. Walter Orr Roberts, director of the University of Colorado's high-altitude observatory, lamented that the failure "probably has set our kind of scientific research back ten years," because the misfire cost scientists a priceless opportunity to study an unusually powerful and unexpected solar flare on the day of the scheduled launching...
There have been no comparable flare-ups since, but the problem remains and has how taken a new turn. Last week, for instance, the newly formed Uganda National Movement had a boycott going of all non-African shops, the purpose being to "drive the Asians into the large towns. After that we shall put pressure on them there too." Long snubbed by the whites, the Asians now find themselves in danger from the blacks, and few can decide to which side...
...almost seemed impudence. Man, in cosmological terms an all but invisible presence on the surface of the earth, had flung aloft an apparatus which disturbed the order of the heavens themselves, made auroras flare in the skies, a hemisphere apart. Exploding nuclear bombs 300 miles above the South Atlantic, the men of Project Argus spun a veil of electrons around the earth, boldly using the atmosphere and nearby space as their laboratory...
...last week, what had started as an idle lark had become a serious affair for both Thompson and Brown. Not only was the flare-up drawing headlines in Providence papers, but newspapers across the nation were carrying deadpan accounts that bore no hint of its whimsical beginnings. Wincing at the story's effect on alumni fund drives and student recruitment programs, Brown officials, with hopes of clearing the air, approved a debate between Thompson and Athletic Director Paul F. Mackesey...
...scientists have known for some time that flares generally occur where there is a large concentration of sunspots, thought by Menzel to be "islands of intense calm floating in the otherwise turbulent sea of the Sun's atmosphere." Accordingly, the staff at Sacramento Peak had been watching a large cluster of sunspots covering over three billion square miles of the Sun's surface. Before the giant flare was seen, seven smaller flares had been observed, like rumblings before a storm. When a flare breaks out it spews a large number of electrically charged particles out into space; the bombardment...