Word: flaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University police arrived at the band's Freshman Union headquarters at approximately 2:30 a.m. Monday and found the room damaged. There was "orange smoke" from a flare that had been exploded, broken glass on the floor, and graffiti on the walls, Deputy Chief of Police Jack W. Morse said...
...Getty's absenteeism and disparaging attitude toward his sons were not helpful. The oldest, George F. II, a president of Tidewater Oil, died an apparent suicide in 1973. Jean Ronald, born to a German mother in 1929, left the family oil business to produce a few minor films like Flare-up with Ursula Andress, and claims that "the only thing I inherited from my father was his love of animals." Jean Paul Jr., 53, one of the most flamboyant jet-setters of the 1960s, is a reclusive rare-books collector in London. Depending on which biography you read, he wore...
...trades on his name and contacts. "We are not door openers," he snaps. "Everywhere I have traveled in the past year, the heads of governments receive me. I do not ask them to do a favor for a client, and I don't bring clients in with me." The flare of anger indicates how deeply the criticism stings. He refutes the innuendo: "Some time ago a foreign company offered me $1 million, to be deposited in a Swiss bank the minute the company chairman walked through the door of a certain important finance minister. It would have required one phone...
...founder, Robert Jay Mathews, 31, died last December. Holed up in a waterfront house on Whidbey Island in Washington State, Mathews fired some 1,000 rounds of ammunition at an army of federal and local police who were trying to arrest him. The fusillade ended when an illumination flare blew up a cache of ammo, the house--and Mathews...
...Lions just missed their third touchdown of the afternoon when a wide-open John Pennywell let a Santos flare pass slip away, but Chirico came back on the next play to bull the ball to the Harvard 1-yd. line...