Word: flare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both teams played tight, fast games that tended to become somewhat disorganized, leading to the great number of fouls. The referees closely followed the action, however, and prevented any of the flare-ups that often mark inter-House play...
...Laird recently said that the Communists have "advertised an offensive as they have advertised no other offensive in Viet Nam." The White House has been encouraging such forecasts of trouble, for obvious reasons. Richard Nixon is taking no chances that the U.S. public will be surprised by a bloody flare-up in South Viet Nam-as it was, with fatal consequences for the Johnson Administration, in the Tet offensive of February...
...what seemed merely the outward direction of inward frustration became far more than that this week. In case you haven't seen the films of the Ohio State-Minnesota game, don't be deluded into thinking that this was just another "flare-up." In the closing moments of the game. Minnesota's Clyde Turner threw Ohio State's Luke Witte to the floor to avoid an OSU lay-up. Turner, hearing he was ejected from the game, began swinging. Meanwhile, as Minnesota's Corky Taylor helped the stunned Witte to his feet, he kneed him in the groin and sent...
...South Viet Nam, Saigon forces took up defensive positions, primarily astride infiltration routes and around major cities and military bases, to await a sizable flare-up in Communist activity that is expected to peak at the time of the Tet holidays, which fall in mid-February. Meanwhile the North Vietnamese moved mobile missile launchers right up to South Viet Nam's northern frontiers, and the air war continued. The U.S. last week conducted its seventh "protective reaction" strike of the year against SAM sites in North Viet...
Near flat altars on the sand stand priests and priestesses; well-dressed Brazilians as well as poor favelados line up to receive their blessings. Drums beat, drinking and chanting start, and worshipers seized by spirits begin their slow, rotating dance. As the old year wanes, fireworks flare above the beach. Then at midnight, hundreds of thousands of little homemade rafts bearing the offerings are pushed or paddled far out into the waves. If the offering is "accepted" by lemanjá it does not wash back onto the shore and it spells a lucky New Year. Hours later the people wander...