Word: flare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most ominous flare-up occurred in southeast Lebanon, when some 1,000 fedayeen crossed over the border from Syria. The troops belong to a fighting unit known as the Yarmuk Brigade, which has the backing of the Syrian government. But after brief skirmishes with Lebanese soldiers, the Palestinian invaders withdrew. Their sortie seemed to have been a largely symbolic demonstration of support for their embattled brothers in Beirut...
...color field lightens and meets a series of linear strokes of color that bound and direct it. On the right the general tone of the painting grows green; there the bordering strokes are green on white. On the left, a plunging red streak ignites the entire canvas like a flare thrown across the night. (I describe the painting in such detail because it is impossible to convey any good idea of the painting in black and white reproduction -- that is the cost of successfully merging color and form...
...fighting refuses to die down in Cambodia, it threatens to flare up with pre-Paris vigor in South Viet Nam. Despite the elaborate peace-keeping machinery and the tough talk from Washington, the skirmishing throughout the South last week surged to the highest level since the days immediately following the January ceasefire...
...from the audience for a whirl around the floor. As always, the gendarmes had crowd-control problems. Amidst all the hoopla was a rather prosaic message: women buying Paris labels next fall will find many of them attached to familiar skirts and sweaters. Dresses cling at the bodice and flare at the hems, and pants are getting less emphasis...
Racial tensions are not at the flare point of the mid-1960s, yet friction is rarely far from the surface, particularly in Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and Newark. Crimes against property have been leveling, but violent crimes against people continue to stalk the urban areas. Many cities are doing better financially than in recent years, but the nation's five biggest-New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Detroit -are either in the red or otherwise financially troubled...