Word: flared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little T-group of deserted parents drift from one home to another apartment building to hotel Harlem to Upper East Side doctors office to bedroom endlessly discussing their problems and trying to help one another contact their scattered off spring Only loneliness keeps them together At times tempers flare; class hatred racial prejudices and religious differences contribute to the tense atmosphere. Calisher mocks her characters as "prodigal fathers not received", and dangles them above a generational abyss made up of paradoxes and contradictions based on the dichotomy of young and old, using them to represent all forms of societal...
Kircher had been a surprise omission on the travel list for the Columbia game. Restic said yesterday that the reason he didn't make the trip was a flare-up of an old high school neck injury that hindered his movement. Kircher is expected to see some work this week...
...learn more about these flare-ups-and also how to predict them-scientists have established some 45 solar observatories around the world...
Using batteries of instruments that include solar telescopes equipped with cameras, spectroscopes and magnetographs, they maintain constant vigilance of the sun, looking for the smallest sign of unusual solar activity. But the accurate forecasting of flare-ups is still what Solar Physicist Robert Noyes of the Harvard and Smithsonian observatories calls "very much a black art," a description that is fully supported by last week's dramatic-and unexpected-events...
...Which means that the explosion actually took place 10 million years ago, or the time it took light from the flare-up to reach earth...