Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with food and drinks. Zakuska (Russian hors d'oeuvres) was so plentiful that by the time the hot dishes arrived, hours later, nobody was hungry except the waiters, who kept filling up plates and tucking them away behind portieres. The food was excellent and wound up in a blaze of crepes suzettes, ice creams and purple champagne...
...release of the Senate's Truman Committee report, a measured, figure-crammed study of "Petroleum Matters," will this week pour oil on the blaze from a new quarter. For it recommends that in this matter "basic policy determinations must be made by the Congress...
...Beautiful Blaze." In the Gulf of Genoa, I had marvelous orders. I was told to go out and make as much nuisance as I could. It had become quite a sport to shoot up trains; I had never tried it before. Somewhat southwest of Savona, we spent a whole day watching the railroad. Just after dark we got about 400 yards offshore. A train popped out of the tunnel and we fired. The first shell exploded just inside the cab where the driver was. Several of our shells hit the posts which carry the electric line...
Resembling an outsized insecticide spray gun, the Army's weapon can project a 60-yard-long, rodlike flame or a 25-yard-long, billowing blaze to cover a wider area...
...reporting, for most of it is purpled by the storybook struggle between a U.S. top sergeant (Myron McCormick) and a titled British captain (Bramwell Fletcher) over an Australian nurse. The captain is out of a Punch cartoon, the girl just out of this world. In the end, while Stukas blaze overhead, the proud peer gamely reads the marriage service over the girl and the better...