Word: flare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wine sellers, nurses, wives, peddlers, moneylenders, cardsharps, children, thieves, thugs, priests, a company of traveling actors-outnumber the soldiers by as much as eight to one, and the same wild and brutalized rabble roils through the pages of the book. All are lit up as if by the lurid flare of torches and burning towns and the intermittent flash of gunpowder. Even the occasional brave or intelligent man is no more in control of his fate than any of the others. After a while the reader begins desperately to wish that the author had not torn up all those streets...
...uneasy status quo has been reestablished at Boston University following last week's flare up over editorial freedom of the student-run weekly, The B.U. News. President Harold C. Case has promised not to enforce his earlier dictum that News editor-in-chief Werner Bundschuh submit all copy to the faculty advisor to be reviewed "for accuracy" before publication...
...Dilate the nostrils. Flare them...
...Pursued the elusive goal of world peace while keeping U.S. prestige high and U.S. power strong. He provided no panaceas for chronic ailments, but he met his major flare-up crisis-that of the Gulf of Tonkin-with just about the proper mixture of force and caution...
With their usual flare for understatement, some critics called the director of M, Fritz Lang, "th greatest of the great." He certainly belongs in the company of brilliant German directors like Wiene, Pabst, and Marnau. In any case, amidst the stultifying holiday cheer, we figured that the best reason for going to the Brattle had little to do with directors--in M, we had heard, one could see Peter Lorre murder little girls...