Word: flared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Air Service Command. He saw less than an ambitious airman would want to of the shooting match, but he continued to qualify himself for research and development. He learned something of the shoestring tragedies of R and D when a B-17 fitted with a new flare-dropping rack that he had designed caught fire mysteriously over Cairns, Australia and crashed, killing its crew. The investigation did not establish conclusively that his rack was responsible, but thereafter the device was regarded with open suspicion; no one but Ben and a co-designer felt nervy enough to fly with...
...Europe-bound tourists, worried over reports of gas rationing and of train schedules dislocated by the Suez crisis, American Express had a reassuring word. Barring any drastic new international flare-up, Western European travel conditions will be just about the same as in 1956. After checking in with the governments of 18 countries, American Express
Bent on avoiding a flare-up in the smoking Suez crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS), the Administration had tried to nudge the Israelis out of Sinai by threatening to support U.N. sanctions against Israel. President Eisenhower sent a warning letter to Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion, and both Ike and Secretary of State Dulles dropped public hints for Israeli consumption-at the same time hoping fervently that the hints would be enough to forestall an embarrassing U.N. vote on sanctions...
Ever since the flare-up in Hungary, trim-whiskered Walter Ulbricht, Communist boss of East Germany, has been like a cat on the hot tin roof of satellite unrest. Two weeks ago the jumpy Ulbricht, unable to stand the heat any longer, alerted the Communist fire department. In a speech before the East German Socialist Unity (Communist) Party Central Committee, he detailed a nefarious plot to overthrow the regime, and named as the chief incendiary a youthful (34) professor and editor named Wolfgang Harich. It was the first time that Ulbricht has acknowledged renewed trouble in East Germany...
...care ? the Italian shoe of exotic cut, the chesterfield with the velvet collar, the bright red sweater that makes his eyes seem green. And when he decides to give somebody the full charge of charm, the eyes glow like coals that have been blown on. the educated nostrils flare just the least little bit, and the rich low cello voice begins to murmur intelligently...