Word: flame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bango-bungo stuff even in those early days, soon made the club popular with the better type of bootleggers and gangsters of the Prohibition era. Joe Frisco was M.C., and to sing his song. Billy hired a chorus girl with a voice as hot and blue as a gas flame-Helen Morgan...
...thing is finished when you finish what you have to say. Painting can be like building a campfire on a rainy day. Very difficult; the wood is sodden and you are down on your knees in the wet, blowing from above and from below. Suddenly the white flame blazes up and there it is. If you rearranged things you might ruin...
With the wheel spinning at 18,000 r.p.m., the sound has a pitch of 24,000 cycles-too high for the normal human ear. But if two sheets of paper are placed in the beam, the nearer is cooled by the air blast, while the second bursts into flame. Once Mr. White held his hand in the path of the silent sound waves. He felt a "scintillating" sensation, as if his skin were covered with rapidly alternating hot and cold spots. The hand was not damaged. Ultrasonic sound is no comic-strip death ray; 99.98% of its energy is reflected...
...other-or had time to do anything about it-the small plane drove at right angles into the big one's tail. Only 30 feet off the ground, the two planes bucked up like broncos, then crashed together on to runway No. 5, burst into bright flame. Everyone in both planes was killed...
...Flame & Invisible Force. The next minutes were a vortex of sound, flame and rushing, invisible force. The bodies of the dock crowd, limbs and clothes torn off by the blast, were strewn for half a block. In the ruins of the Monsanto plant, buildings sagged slowly down on 800 workers. In adjacent refineries, gasoline and oil tanks shot up like rockets, walls fell, pipes curled up and writhed like snakes, and black and red fire licked greedily over the ground...