Word: flare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refs case the various colleges' offensive patterns so they know what to look for in the constant bump and grind that can flare into fisticuffs unless kept under control. "It's a new game every night," Hannon says. "I know the teams that run the fast break and know that I have to get down the court." He points out that there are many teams that press and zone-press right off the bat, forcing officials to monitor swarming action at both ends of the court...
Last summer, Crutzen declared that a large solar flare in 1972 must have doubled the amount of nitrogen oxides in the stratosphere at an altitude of about 25 miles over the polar regions, and thus depleted the ozone over these areas by an amount he calculated at 20%. There was a way of checking his theory. A Nimbus satellite, in orbit at the time, had been measuring the amount of ultraviolet light reflected from the earth's atmosphere. Because ozone absorbs ultraviolet, any decrease in ozone would result in an increase in the ultraviolet "seen" by the satellite. Sure...
Senator Fred Harris, 45. Gunshot wound from hunting accident at age 15 fully healed. No flare-up of a duodenal ulcer suffered in 1954. No recurrence of dizziness bout in 1972, diagnosed as acute labyrinthitis. Only real problem is weight (198 Ibs. on 5-ft. 8¾-in. frame), though he recently lost...
...LIGHTS flare up in the arena, the microphone drops in a terrific shot taken from above, the crowd, which has been skillfully clipped from films of actual fights, roars. Apollo Creed, who has sent flowers to the mayor's wife, and comes out through the aisles dressed as George Washington in an extravagant Crossing the Delaware parade, means business in this fight, but he does not know that Rocky means business too. Round after fifteen rounds, Rocky stays up, going for the champ's weakened right side. "He doesn't know it's a show; he thinks...
...without him at the helm: "When everybody wants to fight, there's nothing to fight for. Everybody wants to fight his own little war, everybody is a guerrilla." The native politicians are corrupt, the foreign businessmen avaricious, and the people either lethargic or criminal. When an uprising does flare, it is nasty and inept...