Word: flare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was, at least, one bit of luck in the situation. The cyclone of 1876 was followed by an outbreak of cholera that killed 50,000. So far, miraculously, East Pakistan's water supplies seem remarkably free of contamination, and there has been no sign of the feared flare-up of cholera, which is endemic in the area. Health officials speculated that, after decades of living in the Ganges Delta, the Bengalis must be pretty much inured to any calamity-bacteriological, meteorological, or political...
Gang raped available women, often followed by a modern version of ritual sacrifice which is accomplished by inserting a lighted flare inside the victim's vagina and watching her explode...
...metaphor. When Sarah reminisces about sitting with her dying mother, the camera pans up the thin tube rising from her mother's arm to the vial of plasma, a sterile white building jutting vertically on the horizon seen through a window. And when Danny chops wood, the sun produces flare effects on the axe's downward lunge, a pleasant bit of work-glorifying imagery. For the great part of the film's duration, however, the audience is merely lulled into acceptance by the screen's warm colors and the Brahms music on the soundtrack...
...problem he's had, however, is a flare up of a hip injury which cut short his junior year of cross country. Because of it, he has not been able to work out too much the last two weeks. "I'm trying to regain some of my confidence now. I'd feel a lot better if I'd won the Heps...
...executives are likely to move into the vacuum created by Merzagora's departure. In Italy, the government already has monopoly control over electric power, telephones, railroads, radio and television. The state also has big interests in shipping, steel, airlines and oil. After last week's flare-up, it seems quite possible that the Continent's biggest chemical concern eventually will be tucked completely into the government fold...