Word: flare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasons for choosing 1957-58 as as Geophysical Year was the anticipation of great solar activity--sunspots, flares and "plages" many times the size of the earth--which occurs in roughly eleven year cycles. As long ago as 1946, scientists were looking forward to last year as another peak in the sun-spot cycle; they were amply rewarded, for both 1946-47 and 1957-58 turned in high sunspot peaks. Donald H. Menzel, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, and long a specialist in solar research, agreed that the Sun cooperated beautifully during its intensive examination. In fact...
...granddaddies of all magnetic storms on February 10 and 11, 1958. The first hint that something out of the ordinary was happening to the sun came early in the afternoon of the ninth, when an observer, looking through an instrument called a monochromatic heliograph, spotted a flare of breathtaking brilliance leaping out from the Sun's surface. Almost before he could notify the World Data Center on Solar Activity at Boulder, Colorado, confirmation came from the Radio Astronomy Station at Ft. Davis. Bursts of static at 448 megacycles were so loud that the listener called it "Magnitude Major Plus...
...orbital speed decreases, the man-carrying satellite will curve downward into the atmosphere. The capsule will hit the thin upper air at almost 18,000 m.p.h.-enough energy of motion to turn capsule and pilot into incandescent vapor unless it is dissipated effectively. To ground watchers, the capsule will flare like a shooting star, leaving a broad track of flame in the sky. The pilot is expected to feel, for a brief period, about 10 g of deceleration...
Tufts came roaring back in the second half, and with 8:29 remaining in the game the Jumbos hit for seven straight points to cut its deficit to 53-46. Tempers began to flare during the Tufts surge, as Donohue and Jumbo Dick Mapp exchanged punches in a free-ball scramble and when a struggle for a rebound produced a ten-man pile-up under the basket...
...gigantic wave swept the men into the water. They fought their way back aboard. The Sartori's searchlight swept over the raft, but flashed away again. As the ship came closer, Fleming frantically tore at his last flare. At first, he could not get through the protective casing. He chewed at it, got it open-but it would not ignite. The Sartori moved...