Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether spontaneous or not, 42 local fire-fighters put out the "blaze" within ten minutes, aided by falling snow, but it took almost an hour before all the engines could pull out of the Eliot drifts...
...society columnist: "The William Benjamins 2nd (Odette de Brunière) hope for a telephone during the New Year." And last week her debut had the hairy Daily News mewing about "a pale blue moon" and "pink mist." For her coming-out party, there was a blaze of pink candles, a bed of pink azaleas, baby spots playing on the potted plants, a hamburger stand and an ice cream stand, champagne ("all French") in five-foot jeroboams, Moscow Mules* in copper souvenir cups. After breakfast (4 a.m.) Ginny hauled off her hoopskirt ("icy white satin . . . after a Winterhalter portrait...
...retarding to slow motion Beauty's terror-struck sprint through the Beast's castle, Cocteau conveys every decibel of the shriek she cannot release. There is also plenty of surreal wit: the Beast's eyes, ears, nose and fingernails fume when the fires of lust blaze up in him; and Beauty's tears turn to diamonds on her cheeks...
...American Airliner, with 25 aboard, had just passed over Gallup, New Mexico when the fire broke out. Pilot Evan Chatfield swung back for the field at Gallup, praying for time to make it. He did. Fire trucks quickly snuffed out the blaze. The damage was small-only a foot-square hole in the plane. But the near-catastrophe frightened the airlines...
...Moreover, fire broke out for the second time in five years in the south wing of the royal couple's stately Georgian bridal home, Sunninghill Park. Ten fire companies battled the blaze from midnight until dawn, while flames shot 50 :feet into the air. By morning, when the fire was at last put out, most of the roof was burnt off, and only one wing had escaped damage...