Word: flare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...football players on the Washington team are predominantly African-American. Washington, D.C. is predominantly African-American. Its city council is predominantly African-American. Yet, change the team's name to the Washington Darkies and just sit back and watch the riots flare up. Everyone from Jesse Jackson to Louis Farrakhan would find himself between a microphone, placard and television camera screaming racism...
...were doing a pullback dribble. I passed the ball to [Grancio], and wanted to go out on a flare," said Hill, who led the Crimson with 14 points and five assists. "My defender started to jump by the screen, so I drove in, and Chris made a good pass. It was kind of an instinctive play...
During the title credits, Luke's theme opens the movie with an adventuresome flare and becomes the most prominent melody line throughout the film. Williams says that he "composed a melody that reflected the brassy, bold, masculine, and noble qualities" of Skywalker, and he doesn't disappoint. From then on, through the whole movie, each scene has a unique musical quality, weaving the melodic themes of each character into the mood where appropriate. The soundtrack finishes with the majestic "Throne Room" brass fanfare and the "End Title" theme--a combination of the movie's great theme melodies--to close...
...returned for another march a half-hour later. Rebels, still holding 72 hostages, accuse police of deliberately trying to provoke a fight as an excuse to storm the compound. Though Peru has reaffirmed that hostage safety remains their first concern, plans for negotiations continue to be frustrated. If a flare-up does occur, leaders on both sides may find their minions difficult to control...
...years of hard-fought negotiations that had stalled the growth of the airline, forcing it to hold back on the purchase of 103 planes, worth $6.6 billion. In September, it seemed that American would finally be able to proceed with its long-forestalled expansion plans, but the recent flare up has thrown those plans into doubt. Earlier this month, the union rejected a contract offered by the company that would have provided them with a 3 percent pay increase this year, and 2 percent in 1999, a shade below the union demands for a pay increase of 3 percent each...