Word: flare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flares (intense disturbances) on the sun often shoot high-energy protons all the way to earth. During the period July 10-18, 1959. for example, protons from a sun flare would have given spacemen a deadly dose of radiation during each day of orbiting...
Shielding can be used to protect the spacemen, but Dow estimated that 100 lbs. of lead per sq. ft. will be required to keep Van Allen or flare radiation at a safe level. That figures at no less than 11,000 Ibs.-more than the total weight of the heaviest satellite yet put into orbit, the U.S.S.R.'s Sputnik III-for shielding in a cramped, man-carrying capsule only six feet in diameter. Dow conceded that better shielding materials than lead may be found. But he saw little chance that the light and roomy satellite stations so dear...
Once again, this time in South Africa, the soft underbelly of the Western "free" nations reveals a startling and potentially dangerous weakness. Race tensions and hatreds, while long played down as having no real effect on the ability of the Western alliance to oppose Communism, flare forth as a glaring reminder that this could be the Achilles' heel that Khrushchev has been looking for. It is a situation made to order for those trying to sell Communism as the panacea for all the tragic ills suffered by the black man at the hands of "democratic" governments...
They were mainly worried about the recent flare-up of religion-in-politics issues. Answering one editor's question, Nixon deplored the fact that Democrat Jack Kennedy's Catholicism had been injected as an issue into the Wisconsin primary...
...normal people, he said, the hydrocortisone output goes up sharply in the early morning hours to a peak around 6 a.m., then falls gradually to a nighttime resting level. In a rheumatoid arthritis victim, this pattern is generally reversed. Lacking adaptive ability, the patient reacts with a flare-up of disease when the cortisone tide ebbs. This may happen after delivery to a woman who has been free of arthritis symptoms during pregnancy. The letdown phenomenon is also seen in patients after long-term cortisone treatment...