Word: flare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...room as in the field, noncoms and enlisted soldiers are as devoted to Schwarzkopf as his officers. None seem overly intimidated by his gruffness, his size (6 ft. 3 in., 240 lbs.) or even his flare-ups. He is, after all, the Bear, whom some describe as only part grizzly and the rest Teddy. His wife Brenda and their three children know him as a pussycat: an outdoorsman, an amateur magician, a cookie muncher, a fellow who lulls himself to sleep listening to tapes of Pavarotti or the sounds of honking geese and mountain streams. So what if he likes...
...least one early-warning satellite is parked over the Indian Ocean at all times, using its infrared eye to scour Iraqi territory every 12 seconds for the hot flare of a missile launch. Upon detection, an astonishing split-second relay of signals is set into motion. First, the satellite sends its data simultaneously to an Air Force ground station in Woomera, Australia, and to the U.S. Space Command's Missile Warning Center near Colorado Springs. Computers in Colorado instantly sort through the information, identify individual missiles, project target areas and flash the results by satellite back to the gulf...
...confrontation in Vilnius began to recall events in Hungary in 1956, when the Soviet army moved against a restive population under cover of another Middle East flare-up, the Suez crisis. After a week-long show of force in which armored convoys roamed the city and 1,000 paratroopers secured key buildings, Lithuanians started to form makeshift antitank barricades outside the parliament building...
Perhaps the most insidious consequence of skimping on sleep is the irritability that increasingly pervades society. Weariness corrodes civility and erases humor, traits that ease the myriad daily frustrations, from standing in supermarket lines to refereeing the kids' squabbles. Without sufficient sleep, tempers flare faster and hotter at the slightest offense...
Temper, Temper: Harvard's Ron Mitchell took exception to Krizansky's decision to fling his elbows in the junior Crimson forward's face. Mitchell immediately retaliated with a fist in Krizansky's face, causing tempers on both sides to flare...