Word: flaring
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...issue has galvanized such intensive student protest. No issue has caused tempers to flare so high. And on no issue has Bok's distinctive ability to weather controversy been more apparent than in his handling of the divestment campaign...
...convention. The city has pledged to defray a larger amount of convention costs ($22 million) than its two rivals, Cleveland ($15 million) and New Orleans ($13 million), and its Democratic fund raisers have promised to help fill the coffers of the nominee. But Gotham's recent racial flare-ups have given pause even to some of the city's top Democrats. "Why do we need this?" asks one party...
After sustaining heavy casualties, the two warring departments finally agreed to an uneasy cease-fire when they realized the flare-up might drive impressionable first-years into a humanities field or--worse yet--chemistry...
...surrealism of combat. Sometimes he succumbs to stagy symbolism, such as a scene of a literal burying of a hatchet. But when one character defines death as "like being inside a book that nobody's reading," O'Brien's notion of story-truth goes off like a successful trip-flare, and we suddenly see why he had to become a writer...
...misfortune is being played out on two fronts: the flare-ups of ethnic $ hatred within the republics and the growing opposition of the republics themselves to Moscow. These calamities have been as unexpected to us as the disintegration of the world colonial system was to many Marxists. We had rejoiced at the crumbling of that system. At the same time, we believed our empire was protected from such troubles; after all, didn't we enjoy an immunity of sorts in our "eternal brotherhood of peoples...