Word: flame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lamont workmen used blowtorches. Mayor Curley used MIT's flame, throwers, Boston used every available street cleaner and a condescending reporter from the Globe. The railroads used well-paid volunteers from Harvard...
...Mosquito fighter-bomber, landing, had crashed into a parked Dakota, transforming both into a ballooning cloud of orange fire and black smoke. Out of the cloud ran the pilot, streaming flame, to shrivel and die before their eyes. At that moment Forrester realized an important fact. Ever since he had lost his wife in a bomb blast in London he had been trying coldly to get himself killed in combat. Now he knew that he didn't, after all, want...
...neurotic sense of "loneliness . . . failure and pathetic incompetence." When inspired, "almost all creative writers have at some moments of their lives been panic-stricken by the conviction that their imagination was getting the better of their reason. . . . The God visits them, not amicably, but in a flash of flame and fire." In Shakespeare's phrase: "Such tricks hath strong imagination...
...smoldering ember of the new U.S. foreign policy was fanned into brisk flame last week. New York's roaring Representative John Taber discovered-after others had pointed it out to him-that the U.S. had shipped $113 million worth of exports to unfriendly Russia in the first nine months of 1947. Cried he: "A constant and deliberate violation of the law. . . . We are providing with our own funds the things with which Russia can destroy...
...staff, following Christchurch custom, were at afternoon tea or were just ambling back to their counters. They smelled fire and saw wisps of smoke but, told that firemen were arriving, carried on with their jobs. Then, in a twinkling, the acre-wide building was a pillar of flame. Fire broke from the shallow basement, seared the main floor, exploded upward to the second and third...