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Word: flame (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flamboyant, depends on an occasional shimmy of her spangled hips or a body-shaping gesture of her hands to prime her audience for her blues-tinted ballads -Yon Do Something to Me, Fools Rush In, I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good. In Detroit's Flame Show Bar, she appears sleekly encased in a bare-shouldered black dress, throws her head back, and through pouting lips floats out her sad, sexy lyrics in a voice smoky with longing. Her timing and enunciation are precise. Usually she plays the elegant if slightly shopworn lady, but sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Topic A | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...dark Texas skies, Air Force Lieut. James Edward Obenauf made a split-second, life-and-death decision. Around him, his six-jet B-47* seemed to be falling apart: the right outboard engine was boiling with flame, scattering red-hot pieces of steel across the wing and fuselage. The navigator had bailed out of the nose compartment; so had the pilot. Copilot Obenauf, squeezing along the catwalk toward the nose, was ready to jump too. He looked down and froze: there, lying unconscious, his oxygen equipment disconnected, his chute pack gone, was the navigator-instructor, Major Joseph B. Maxwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: How Obie Won His Medal | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...British: "Let me carry the bombs out. Someone carried them in. They can't be all that dangerous." But as dusk neared, houses and shops adjoining the theater were cleared, police cordoned off adjoining streets, a siren warned everyone away. At 6:51 p.m., in a sheet of flame and with a blast that rocked Famagusta's old north wall, the British exploded the bombs. The top two stories of the theater's living quarters collapsed, snapping telephone poles, piling rubble atop nearby shops. Hundreds of seats in the theater were shattered. The British refused to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Answering Blast | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

Trailing orange flame, a 75-ft. Atlas ICBM rocketed off its launching pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla. last week and disappeared out over the Atlantic. Shortly afterward the Air Force issued a proud announcement: the big bird had flown successfully over a test course of several hundred miles. Reports had it that the missile, the seventh Atlas to be fired and the third to complete its programed course, was preset to swerve sharply after burnout in a test of structural strength. Apparently it scored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Atlas Soars Again | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...which they scribble lipsticked love messages, such as daite ageru wayo (I shall hold you), before sending the tissue arching over the footlights. The top rockabilly stars-Masaaki Hirao, 20; Keijiro Yamashita, 19; Micky Curtis, 18, the son of an English father and an English-Japanese mother-wear flame-red shirts, rose-pink coats, lobster-colored tight pants, blue or white suede shoes. They have learned their art from listening to U.S. records of Elvis Presley, though sometimes the lyrics suffer a transoceanic mutilation, as in Rub Me Tender and Rittoru Dahring (Little Darling). Hi rao is solemnly described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Rittoru Dahring | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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