Word: flare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Operating from the Terrier 26, Kubacki hit Winn with a flare pass for a nine-yard gain. Following a penalty for delay of game, the junior then hooked up with split end Steve Saxon on the left side of the endzone for a 22-yard score...
Like a cancer checked in one organ only to flare up in another, factional fighting erupted again in Lebanon last week. Premier Rashid Karami's reluctant decision to order army units into the northern sector of the country (TIME, Sept. 22) finally halted the violence around Tripoli. But Lebanon's second largest city had hardly quieted down when street warfare broke out in Beirut for the fourth time since last April. More than 100 people were killed in several days of shooting and bombing in the capital before a tenuous truce was negotiated at week...
Rozelle Rule. The flare-up began when the New England Patriots voted to boycott the last game of their preseason schedule. The Patriots were not simply demanding a better contract; they were trying to find out if the N.F.L. Players Association was a viable union. Since the failure of last year's strike, the owners have felt no pressing need to bargain with the players' group. "We're tired of waiting for negotiations to progress," announced Randy Vataha, Patriot wide receiver and player representative. "Let's see if the owners are serious-and whether the players...
What made the flare of violence in Sacramento especially baffling and frightening for leading American politicians was the fact that Jerry Ford seemed to be as free of the danger of assassination as any man could be−a friendly father figure who excited neither envy nor hatred. But Squeaky Fromme had discovered her own reasons to dislike the man. With Sandra Good, her roommate and another member of the Manson "family," Fromme issued a statement to the press two months ago equating Ford with Richard Nixon, the man whom the clan has always blamed as the source...
Fantasy Father. Some patients hope to punish their absent therapists by performing impulsive, even dangerous acts. Suicide attempts or threats are not uncommon. People under treatment for psychosomatic illnesses like asthma or ulcerative colitis have experienced violent flare-ups of their diseases while their psychiatrists were away. Swartz recalls that one debt-ridden patient suddenly took out a loan for a new Mercedes...