Word: flare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frustration has spawned violence. Negro youths last year burned the sheriff's substation nearest Marin City, hailed rocks and gasoline bombs on patrolling deputies. In a flare-up this month, several buildings were set ablaze and responding firemen pelted with rocks. During a meeting at which Negroes voiced their grievances, County Administrator Alan Bruce, a white man, declared: "Whitey is beginning to understand why he is hated so much...
...Jodrell Bank's work is done on pure astronomical research -measuring the angular diameter of quasars and other radio sources, determining the hydrogen content of galaxies, pinpointing the location of radio sources by lunar occultation, mapping the Milky Way. Lovell's particular speciality is studying small flare stars that periodically increase in luminosity...
...decided to perform a complex "gullibility experiment." Working secretly in a steam tunnel under the Caltech campus, they rigged balloons out of polyethylene sheeting and filled them with an inert gas-probably helium. From the bottom of the balloons they suspended metal rods, each with fins and a railroad flare fastened to its lower...
...Hour Trip. Not all solar flares are accompanied by dangerous proton outbursts, and the solar patrol will have to take care not to set off a false alarm that might unnecessarily abort a costly Apollo mission. But on the basis of past observations, the patrolmen know that if a flare is large and bright enough, if it is located close enough to a sunspot and is the source of strong radio signals over a wide range of frequencies, its appearance almost always heralds a hail of high-energy protons...
Once an ominous flare is sighted, word will have to be flashed quickly to the lunar astronauts. Speeding outward from the sun, 93 million miles away, the first deadly protons could begin hitting the moon an hour after the first flare sighting. The lethal rain would become increasingly strong, reaching a maximum about six hours later. Long before that maximum, though, if all went well, the astronauts would have blasted off in their LEM to rendezvous and found safety within the protective skin of the orbiting Apollo...