Word: flare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many experts believe that deficits have been pushed perilously close to their manageable limit, and that if they continue, chronic inflation is certain to flare up. Says Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "The budget has begun to get substantially out of control...
Whatever Hanoi does, Nixon is not likely to interrupt the withdrawals more than temporarily. For one thing, the cooled American temper on the war would probably flare up again should the pullout stop-and it would surely rise sharply if Nixon were to send new U.S. forces into battle. For another, the Administration may well be correct in thinking that as the U.S. presence dwindles, public opinion round the world will bear down progressively on Hanoi to repatriate the American P.O.W.s. Certainly the Administration intends to build up all the pressure...
...sing when you're conducting," and stomped offstage. During the preparations for her La Scala appearance, she climaxed an argument with the wardrobe mistress by snatching a pair of scissors and snipping a costume into pieces. The onlooking cast and chorus burst into applause, an Italian tribute to a flare of real temperament...
PENN-Lehigh--The Quakers return lettermen at every position which means that they can successfully defend their ranking in the bottom ten. Penn has lost its ethnic flare and offensive spark in quarterback Pancho Micir, but Lehigh once scored a total of 25 point in 21 games with Penn. Rumors had it that Dick Harter was going to double as basketball and football coach this year, but Dick insisted that none of his players would wear sissy pads. Penn will prevail...
...most controversial contemporary figure in the science of human behavior, adored as a messiah and abhorred as a menace. As leader of the "behavioristic" psychologists, who liken man to a machine, Skinner is vigorously opposed both by humanists and by Freudian psychoanalysts. Next week that opposition is bound to flare anew with the publication of Skinner's latest book. Beyond Freedom and Dignity (Knopf; $6.95). Its message is one that is familiar to followers of Skinner, but startling to the uninitiated: we can no longer afford freedom, and so it must be replaced with control over man, his conduct...