Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specter of fire in a man-carrying spacecraft has long haunted NASA scientists. In the pure-oxygen cabin atmospheres of U.S. craft, it seemed all too probable that a random spark from electrical equipment or insulation overheated by a short circuit might touch off fires that would blaze with explosive fury...
...weightlessness that made the difference. On earth, light, hot combustion products rise from a fire while cool air moves in to take their place, setting up convection currents that feed the blaze. In the weightlessness of space flight, the scientists discovered, there is no reason for the combustion products to rise. Unless they are disturbed by an artificial draft they hover around the burning object, quickly forming a blanket that excludes oxygen and suffocates the flames...
Russia's Aniline, a strapping bay with a big white blaze, may have suffered through a dialectic childhood on a North Caucasus stud farm, but he was still a third cousin of Canada's George Royal and a second cousin once removed of the U.S.'s Assagai-who could hardly have been more capitalistic, since he is owned by Charles Engelhard, the "Platinum King," and grew up in the Bluegrass of Kentucky. Assagai, for his part, shared an illustrious ancestor (Man o' War) with France's Behistoun and Silver Shark. Silver Shark, in turn...
...even a mission to the White House seemed to stem the anti-Erhard muttering. In fact, as he stepped from the Lufthansa jet that brought him home from Washington a fortnight ago, Erhard was greeted by a blaze of unsettling headlines. They spoke of closed-door meetings among politicians anxious to get his scalp. His own deputy party chairman, Rainer Barzel, had huddled with former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Erhard's severest critic. In a hunting lodge in the Vierherrenwald, Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier had canvassed powerful C.D.U. state leaders on Erhard's strength in their regions. It remained...
South Viet Nam's constitutional assembly campaign was in full swing last week amid a blaze of huge red and yellow Vietnamese flags and a blare of sound trucks. Up and down the narrow nation, posters blossomed bearing the arcane symbols of the candidates' slates: the Lamp, the Lotus Blossom, the Cock & Hand, the Woman with a Basket. Declared banners and placards in Sai gon: TO VOTE IS TO BEGIN BUILDING DEMOCRACY...