Word: flame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the Greeks began telling their myths, Etna was deeply encrusted with legend. Somewhere under the sea, the lame god Vulcan (for whom volcanoes are named) had his workshop. It was said that the smoke and flame from his forge, where he devised various contraptions to annoy his estranged mother (Juno) and his wife (Venus), roared up through Etna's crater...
Recent instances of semi-false fire alarms reached epidemic proportions yesterday, as an estimated nine Cambridge fire trucks and accompanying flame-fighters helped Martin L. Frank '47 start up his 1937 Ford in a parking lot near Leverett House...
...Flames suddenly flickered around one of the overheated stovepipes. In the screaming panic, a few of the dancers tried the windows. But the Wehrmacht had barred them during the war, when Loebel's was a prison-camp storehouse. The lights went out. In a terrible burst of flame, the roof collapsed...
...frozen over with two-foot sink holes and ridges at appropriate intervals. It is now too late. A regiment of men would be needed to chop out the ice by hand, and more scientific means prove futile. Salt removes the street as well as the ice, and flame throwing devices only turn the dirty brown mixture an oily black. Only an act of God, such as the recent quick thaw, can bring relief to the Cantabridgian who longs for the ice-free avenues of such a relatively southern metropolis as New York. When one is in Cambridge, one must grin...
...Christmas Eve, Pilot George B. Sprada had radioed that he was at 7,000 feet and could see the San Diego field 60 miles away in the sparkling clear night. A few minutes later, ranchers saw a flame on the mountain top. Then the weather closed in. It was three days later that a cowboy came upon what was left...