Word: flare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rule, Ulster's Catholics had wavered between supporting the outlawed Irish Republican Army and coming to terms with the British. But the nascent good will toward London for replacing the hated Protestant-dominated Parliament at Stormont was clearly a fragile feeling. Almost any incident could spark a renewed flare-up of hatred in the Catholic community-and last week, with a certain inevitability, that flare-up was touched off. By a single death, the I.R.A. gained a martyr, and the British were put on the verge of losing their latest bid to bring peace to bloody Ulster...
...immediate effect of the raids was to create a crisis in Lebanon, whose fragile Christian-Moslem political entente was shattered two years ago following similar Israeli raids and a Lebanese army crackdown on guerrilla activities. Under an agreement following that flare-up, Lebanon had let the fedayeen more or less take over Fatahland in return for pledges not to move into the villages or fire into Israel from Lebanese territory...
...outpost in the Mekong Delta, killing 27 defenders. Still, the only big Tet offensive last week was an American one: hundreds of air strikes were flown against Communist targets, including long-range artillery emplacements just above the Demilitarized Zone. South Vietnamese intelligence officers believe that an early February Communist flare-up had been planned but was put aside so that Communist negotiators in Paris could make a show of seriously considering President Nixon's eight-point peace proposal...
...Tempers Flare...
...then, tempers had begun to flare. Crisp, thoughtful passing on the Harvard power play set up Larry Desmond for the Crimson's-sixth goal with 8 minutes gone in the third period. Bob Havern slipped the second of his three goals past confused Princeton goalie Phil Robinson 40 seconds later...