Word: flare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of the latest flare-up in the Middle East, occasioned by the Arab terrorist attack on an El Al plane in Athens and Israel's reprisal raid on Beirut airport, the Soviet Union last week stepped up its latest diplomatic offensive. Its aim: a four-power agreement among the U.S., Russia, Britain and France on a peace package to offer to the Middle East's antagonists...
When the money men assembled in the barracks-style structure that houses the West German Economics Ministry, Schiller wasted little time in making clear his opposition to the revaluation of the mark. As the meeting dragged on into evening, tempers began to flare. "They did everything except throw chairs at each other," said one participant. Bitter exchanges broke out between the world's leading monetary managers. According to one report, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer lectured the West German Finance Minister "as if he were a member of the Conservative Opposition." Jenkins himself was heckled outside...
...Humphrey's battle for survival also was a fascinating study. Chronically late, incorrigibly loquacious, hopelessly disorganized, the Vice President had seemed to everyone but himself to be a walking case of rigor mortis until the final stretch, when suddenly, somehow, the impassioned humanitarian soul of Humphrey began to flare through the servitor's mask he had worn for four years under Johnson...
...Danang, who rioted briefly three weeks ago. They had complained of cold food, excessive discipline, and long delays before trial. When the brig commander, Lieut. Colonel Joseph Gambardella, promised to look into their complaints, they calmed down and cleared up their cell block; and except for a brief flare-up when 40 parolees and trusties were moved out, that was the end of it. The prisoners at L.B.J. must face a harsher punishment. Since the administration building and its files were burned, the men will have to sweat it out in the stockade regardless of their original sentences until...
...earth, a camera focused on the image of the 9-in. telescope began shooting pictures. The film pack, dropped back to earth by parachute, contained a dozen of the most detailed X-ray photographs ever taken of the sun. The prints showed the X-ray structure of a flare at the sun's center. Other X-ray-emitting solar regions came through as bright splotches on an otherwise dark disk...