Word: flame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incandescent gas soared thousands of feet into the sky. Red-hot volcanic ash spread for miles across rich cattle-raising land, piling three feet deep in places. At least 78 people died, and further disaster struck searchers for the 100 or more still missing when a sudden sheet of flame engulfed a carload of rescuers, incinerating all ten occupants. Nearby Nicaragua, Salvador and Mexico offered aid, and U.S. C-130 transports mounted a shuttle service of relief supplies for 5,000 evacuees from the devastated area. Helicopters were offered for rescue work but could not get close enough...
...Cheap "Chitlings" (not the kind you purchase at a frozen-food counter) will taste rubbery unless they are cooked long enough. How soon can you quit cooking them to eat and enjoy them? a) 15 minutes, b) eight hours, c) 24 hours, d) one week (on a low flame...
...this was a matter beyond his competence, he concurred with the clerk's opinion. Tramping around the narrow streets of Westport, accompanied by TIME Washington Bureau Chief John Steele, Fortas was enjoying the scruffy anonymity of any other summer refugee from the city. In baggy grey pants, a flame-red cardigan sweater, scuffed brown shoes (one with a tongue missing) and a floppy white yachtsman's hat (a 58th-birthday present from his wife ten days earlier), he carted three bags of soiled linen to the laundry, then, pausing occasionally to consult a neat shopping list, picked...
...streets, past a luminescence of sad and silent faces, the cavalcade wound through the federal city and across the Potomac, where in a green grove up the hill in Arlington, John Kennedy's grave looks out over the city and the river. The moon, the slender candles, the eternal flame at John's memorial?47 feet away and the floodlights laved Robert Kennedy's resting place beneath a magnolia tree. It was 11 o'clock, the first nighttime burial at Arlington in memory. There was no playing of taps, no rifle volley. After a brief and simple service, the coffin...
...festive an occasion as we've had in a long time." Students poured into Harvard Square brandishing banners proclaiming GROPIUS FOR PRESIDENT and THERE'S HOPE WITH GROPE. Orange, green and magenta Gropius buttons blossomed on lapels, and one admirer wrapped himself up in a flame-and-gold package as a "present to Mr. Gropius." Harvard's favorite-son candidate, Architect Walter Gropius, had just returned from an 85th-birthday visit to his native Germany, and his disciples in Cambridge were not to be outdone in their esteem. Said Gropius, touched: "This is the grand finale...