Word: flame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seventh Day Adventism is a flame that caught during the great blaze of evangelism which swept through the U.S. in the middle of the last century. To many of the "saved," the prophetic passages of the Bible took on a new importance, and here & there the conviction sprang up that the time for Christ's return was close at hand. The Seventh Day Adventists, so-called because they celebrated the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday), set no date for the second coming, and they avoided a set creed. But Adventists adhere to a strict code: no unnecessary work on the Sabbath...
...Flame and the Arrow (Warner) gives ex-Acrobat Burt Lancaster something he really knows how to do. Almost a spoof of the kind of swashbuckling gymnastics that made Douglas Fairbanks famous, the movie is built around a tumbling act. Feebly disguised as a band of gay rogues in 12th Century Lombardy, Lancaster and some old circus associates swing from chandeliers, draperies and trapezes, drop from trees and balconies, climb ropes and poles and all over each other...
...ships headed out into the storm, to criss-cross Lake Michigan, looking for wreckage. Close to the hour when the Northwest aircoach was due over Milwaukee, a woman on the Michigan lake shore near Benton Harbor had heard a plane roar low, thought she saw a burst of flame over the water. A retired Navy captain reported the same thing-a flash that rivaled the lightning, "flames for a number of seconds-nearly a minute, then light smoke in the lightning's glare." He took a quick bearing on the explosion, made a sailor's guess...
Down the Barrel. At Quantico, the President-whose visit to the Marines was long overdue-saw a thunderous show. From a canvas-covered grandstand, he watched marines storm objectives with tanks, flame throwers, bazookas, phosphorous grenades and 500-m.p.h. bombing attacks. A Marine major kept up a breezy ringside commentary, improving the slower moments by hinting broadly, for the President to hear, that the Marines could do even better with more equipment. A simulated carrier attack by seven banana-shaped helicopters demonstrated how troops could land behind enemy forts and disgorge their equipment in 30 seconds...
...foot boa constrictor slithered out of the Panama jungle one night last week, writhed up a high-tension-line tower along the Panama Railroad track, then glided onto a cable. Forty-four thousand volts surged through the serpent in a whoosh of flame, cremated it within two watch-ticks. As the boa's charred body tumbled down, lights blinked off for a quarter hour along the Pacific side of the Canal Zone. Power failed for three minutes at the great locks of the Panama Canal, then surged back as automatic emergency equipment went to work. It was the Canal...