Word: flare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What everyone feared was the kind of flare-up that would touch off another bloody slaughter like the March 1960 Sharpeville massacre, when police guns killed 67 Africans in two minutes. The government last week banned all public meetings for six weeks and rushed through a new law permitting anyone's arrest and imprisonment for twelve days without bail or trial. Police squads were already rounding up all the suspicious-looking natives they could find, soon had more than 5,000 in their net. At Fordsburg, near Johannesburg, 700 arrested Africans were corralled in outdoor cages. To back...
...same period a year ago. The upsurge of the disease, which is usually spread through human fecal matter, was expected (TIME, Nov. 14). But New Jersey has logged a logarithmic increase: 1,014 cases, as against 437 in all of 1960. Seeking the cause of the flare-up, Dr. Roscoe P. Kandle, the state's commissioner of health, had hundreds of victims interviewed ; then he pointed an accusing finger at the lowly clam...
...bullets were made of paper, the U.S. and Cuba would have annihilated each other last week. The Castro dictatorship charged that U.S. planes "violated" Cuban airspace 49 times in a single month, that a U.S. cruiser fired on a Cuban plane three weeks ago, that a rebel flare-up in Oriente province was "fed ideologically, economically and militarily" by the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo. The U.S., in turn, charged that Havana had maltreated 22 imprisoned Americans by failing not only to provide "needed foods and medicines," but by preventing the neutral Swiss from helping the prisoners...
...fire department, which ordered the electric power shut down on the 5:07's track (but not on the three adjoining tracks). As the fire fighters hosed the blaze, a southbound New Haven train roared up and before the engineer could stop for the flickering red flare, sliced the hoses, which whiplashed crazily around and injured eight firemen. Into the confusion raced fire department officials to begin a lengthy investigation. And all the while, from Grand Central Station and from stations to the north of the accident, came more trains, of the New York Central as well...
Flickering Flare. It began again one evening last week on the New Haven Railroad's 5:07, which left Manhattan's Grand Central Station and headed out for suburban Westchester and Connecticut. The commuters had settled down with their newspapers, homework, bridge games and liquid nourishment...