Word: flame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...term, because they used powder to gauge the strength of liquor. They would mix a sample of newly condensed alcohol with an equal amount of gunpowder and strike a match to it. If the mixture failed to burn, the liquor was too weak; if it erupted into a violent flame, it was too strong; but if it burned with an even blue flame, it was considered just right...
...priests sprinkled Shastri with rose petals and stacked sandalwood logs across his white-shrouded body. A torch of thin twigs was handed to Shastri's eldest son, 32-year-old Hari Krishnan. According to custom, he walked three times around his father's body, then put the flame to the pyre. Priests poured on ghee and incense. Within seconds, the flames erupted, illuminating the wisp of white under the logs. Soon all was ashes...
Doctor Zhivago. Behind the opaque, frosted window pane of a room in Moscow, a candle's flame slowly melts a circle through which the camera peers at a young man reading a letter. As he absorbs terrible revelations about the girl he loves, the circle becomes a poetic, crystaline metaphor for his swollen anguish and the inevitable burning away of youth's illusions. Such fully visualized moments are the key to Director David Lean's triumph over the challenge of filming Boris Pasternak's monumental bestseller. With monastic zeal (TIME, Dec. 24), he has translated...
...flame ran down. We saw the pair...
...like Shepard's. The gantry was a converted oil derrick, bought hastily after Sputnik (the night before Kurt H. Debus, director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, had described details of Shepard's launch: "We had a man in a block-house watching the color of the flame, about 150 feet away. If it looked too bluish, or whatever, he was supposed to press a little button next...