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...Canadiens is the single-season point-scoring championship (which includes points for both goals and assists). This season, with only three games left, that final honor seemed to be his. Then last week, in a game against the Boston Bruins, Rocket Richard exploded into one of the most splendid flare-ups of his career. Clipped in the head by Boston Forward Hal Laycoe's high-swinging stick, the Rocket hardly bothered to brush the blood out of his eyes before he flattened Laycoe. He also managed to give Linesman Cliff Thompson a poke...
After the Revolutionary War came the "Rotten Cabbage Rebellion," waged by students against faculty and cooks. The major flare-up concerned the addition of 600 grains of emetic to the morning coffee. A reprisal failed when the administration suspended a student who "did publickly in Hall insult the authority of the College by hitting one of the Officers with a potatoe...
Never behind after Frank Mahoney's first goal at 1:46, the varsity had a workout of rushing and shooting in the opening stanza against N.U. before its eager post-exam tempers began to flare in the second period...
...South (all the territory below a line drawn from Yuma, Ariz, to the northeast corner of New Mexico and across the continent to where Virginia and North Carolina meet the Atlantic) is infested with these mosquitoes. In this area- one-third of the country-the disease could flare up at any time...
Chipping & Sniping. Despite the flare-up of resistance-or perhaps because of it-Perón & Co. kept right on with the sniping. In the province of Córdoba, the legislature voted to withdraw all subsidies from Roman Catholic schools. In Buenos Aires, the Peronista newspaper Democracia called for the removal of Roman Catholic "idols" (i.e., religious statues) from schools. Interior Minister Angel Borlenghi signed a decree authorizing non-Catholic religious organizations to provide "material and spiritual help" in hospitals and prisons and charitable institutions-a privilege previously reserved to the Roman Catholic Church. And persistent rumors...