Word: flame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Locked Wheels. Suddenly, the thin trail of purple smoke that billows behind the tires of swift-landing jets turned to a dense cloud pierced by a long tongue of flame. Fire engines screamed to the rescue, but the flame died out harmlessly. A brake had locked the left rear wheels; friction against the runway had rasped the tires down to the rims and ignited the rubber...
...couch, springs boing in all directions. When they start upstairs, the stairs collapse. When Andy lights a fire, the house fills up with smoke. When he runs to the well for water, the cap collapses, and he lands in the drink. When he tries to barbecue a chicken, flame shoots out of the bird's behind and whoosh! it takes off like a rocket...
Seven Faces of Dr. Lao. Over the rim of a hill near Abalone, Ariz., rides a bearded Chinese thaumaturge, 7,321 years old. He sits astride a small yellow mule, a goldfish bowl mounted on his saddle. To light his pipe, he conjures up a flame on the end of his thumb. Strangest of all, beneath the wrinkled makeup gleams the familiar sardonic smile of Tony Randall, an actor usually involved in fantasies that psychiatry can cure...
...gaze of greengold flame...
...Barry Goldwater represents the first major breakthrough in "political conservatism" since the days of Teddy Roosevelt. Let's rid ourselves of this clique of liberals, Commie lovers, "intellectuals" and spend-nuts; let's extinguish the eternal flame of mediocrity and move up to greatness...