Word: flare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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jetlike tail fin with a smooth flare...
Despite the flare-up over Hungary, the meeting lasted 2½ hours and ended amicably, but Stevenson left looking grim. He was depressed to find inside the Kremlin exactly what he had found outside it during his four-week tour of the Soviet Union: "Misunderstanding and ignorance about the U.S. and the ideas it stands for." Stevenson's proposed remedy: "A much wider and freer exchange of ideas and information, as well as of tourists, artists and athletes...
Such states as Kentucky, relatively calm since the Clay-Sturgis-Henderson flare-ups of 1956, look for no obstacles to steadily broadening integration. But at this time last year, no one foresaw a blowup at Little Rock. Racist politicians will need less courage this year; Faubus showed that the reward for demagoguery is victory at the polls. Only last week Segregationist Buford Ellington won the decisive Democratic primary in Tennessee...
...Manhattan convention hall known as the Latin Quarter. In a white gown with red lining, she steps before the gold-spangled curtain and gives a wild-riding reading of Witchcraft, her pelvis bumping out the rhythm, her copper-red hair whipping over her face. Her big-bodied voice can flare to an exuberant shout or sink away to a foggy, muted-trumpet whisper. Occasionally, as she sweeps her almond eyes over the ringside tables, she lets flutter a throaty, tongue-trilling sound that suggests nothing so much as the invitation of an amorous cobra. Within the framework of That...
...fiery debate over whether the U.S. should halt nuclear tests is flaring up as the nation gets ready for this summer's tests at Eniwetok. (Somehow it never seems to flare when the Russians are testing.) Last week, as Washington waited for Russia to strike the propaganda pose of unilaterally halting its own tests, the British Labor Party's Hugh Gaitskell, a likely future Prime Minister, called upon Britain to declare a unilateral test ban of its own. In St. Louis, Washington University's left-leaning Physicist Edward U. Condon predicted that because of radioactive fallout from...