Word: flaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fastened to CNN, makes a valuable witness. But it has a tendency to stir people to bursts of indignation that flare briefly, spectacularly and ineffectually, like a fire splashed with a cup of gasoline...
...responding to the chaos in the world, is America using its heart but not its head? Powerful images have a tendency to stir people to bursts of indignation that flare briefly and ineffectually...
...roommates and I get into arguments all the time. And we almost always end up shouting so loud that people can hear us all the way down the hall. Voices get hoarse, tempers flare, sometimes we throw insults or furniture at each other, some of us stomp out of the room fuming--but only to come back to get that last, trenchant word...
...just because only one of the show's 12 writers is female; it is also because the off-camera Letterman is much like the on-camera, prank-playing fraternity boy. Staffers recall the chaos that ensued during an office celebration several years ago, when he set off a flare in Morton's office and triggered the building's smoke alarms. A couple of weeks ago, Letterman challenged head writer Burnett to an oyster-eating contest: $150 if he consumed 50, $10 for each one thereafter. (Burnett wolfed down...
...vaccination may have risks of its own. The problem lies with the nature of the chicken-pox virus. After you get it, you always have it in your body. Normally you only suffer from chicken pox once, but the virus can flare up again later in life, producing shingles, a painful skin rash. The vaccine is a weakened form of the virus, and it too may be harbored in the body forever. The debilitated virus could conceivably spring to life years after the vaccination, and no one knows what damage might occur. Another danger is that the vaccine...