Word: flare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Late last week, there were reports that hundreds of AIM supporters were heading toward Wounded Knee from five states. Indians and lawmen traded shots for the first time since the takeover. No one was injured, but the flare-up strained a tense situation...
Since World War II, New York Times Columnist C.L. Sulzberger has been prowling Europe's corridors of power, acquiring a broad acquaintance with Poo-Bahs, potentates, foreign ministers and heads of state. Presented in daily print, the fruits of his labors have customarily shown more care than flare, and a neutral observer might have assumed that if Sulzberger ever got round to a novel, it would be one of those ponderous constructions that bore the reader while portentously trading on the author's expertise...
...outburst of violence could be leveled at the Protestant side: the long-feared backlash was a fact at last. For the British army, the renewed violence created a second front, a vicious situation in which its men were being shot at by both Protestant and Catholic extremists. The flare-up caused the British government to order yet another round of troop reinforcements for Northern Ireland. It remained to be seen whether, in the long run, the two-sided sniping at Britain's army would lead British public opinion to conclude that the best solution might...
...constant flow of hinterlanders into Djibouti, which now contains about two-thirds of the territory's population. The French built a barbed-wire fence around the city in 1967 to curb the migration. Although the fence is dotted with watchtowers and searchlights and is seeded with flare mines that occasionally kill, more than 1,000 Afars and Issas slip into Djibouti each month...
...human society would accompany the newly-granted humanity. The military has found that it is difficult to order men to hate: now they are learning that it is also impossible to order them not to, Racism infects even those aspects of American life thought colorblind. Incidents will continue to flare up until some far-reaching explosion is invited...