Word: flame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then a large plane carrying a 500-or 1,000-lb. bomb came from the starboard. Mount 2 put a 5-inch projectile squarely into it and the plane disintegrated 200 yards from us. Another plane apparently hit by the air patrol came by in a mass of flame and crashed off the port bow. The next Jap plane knocked off the other yardarm and crashed alongside. The last plane approached from the starboard and dropped a bomb amidships, killing several men in the wardroom where a doctor was treating the wounded...
There are hundreds of American airmen alive and back home now because of these "decadent" French people. . . . They kept alive the flame of freedom under the heel of the Gestapo...
Arleen Whelan, 28, flame-haired, green-eyed stage & screen starlet and ex-manicurist, got undivided attention from a committee of 65 illustrators, who awarded her a wellrounded, unequivocal title: "the most perfect all-over beauty of all time." Runner-up: the Venus de Milo...
...Behind flame-throwing tanks, U.S. Tenth Army troops inched forward. On the west coast the crack, new 6th Marine Division fought its way into the suburbs of Naha. In the center the 1st Marine and 77th Army Divisions pressed closer to Shuri. On the east coast the 96th Army Division captured Conical Hill dominating the Yonabaru airstrip; then doughboys swept ahead to take the airfield itself. Again & again the Japanese came out of mud-filled foxholes and caves to counterattack...
Berliners who had sets in working order heard from somewhere in Germany a thoroughly Teutonic curtain speech addressed just to them: "Vapors and smoke trail upward.... Underneath is a sea of flame, a volcano of millions of fires and twitching shadows. Berlin, help us once more to conjure up all that you have meant!" When Berlin returned to the air, it talked Russian...