Word: flare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dilapidated slum that was home to a lot of poor Negroes and Puerto Ricans but a pox on the face of the city. Set on the north side of the city just 20 blocks from the Loop, the neighborhood still had its solid old houses with the high-Victorian flare that had been built in the 1880s. But the solid burghers who built them had long since moved to the suburbs. And decay had left the streets lined with seedy bars and sleeping bums...
Boston is not likely to experience a racial flare-up like those in Los Angeles and Chicago, three area civil rights leaders and a State Representative from Roxbury agreed yesterday...
...What a flare for words...
James Q. Wilson, director of the Joint Center and associate professor of Government at Harvard, answers the recent flare of criticism by attributing it to "a confusion of my personal values and views with those of the organization. The Joint Center as a whole, of course, doesn't have any values, any more than Harvard as a whole has values...
...sento owners reckoned without the furious public. PEOPLE FLARE UP IN ANGER, screamed the banner headline in Tokyo's largest daily Yomiuri Shimbun; it reported that irate callers were jamming the paper's switchboard with threats to smash sento windows and protests that "They are infringing on basic human rights!" Cried Mrs. Eiko Takada, 24, mother of three: "How can we keep our babies living without bathing them at least once a day? Is the sento association trying to commit wholesale murder of babies?" Declared Mrs. Mumeo Oku, the vocal chairwoman of the Tokyo Housewives Association: "These...