Word: flame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suddenly forced to return to the orbiting mother ship, controllers again fired the descent engine. While it was burning, they also fired the 3,500-lb.-thrust ascent engine, which will be used to lift the astronauts off the surface of the moon. Blasting its flame directly into a depression atop LM's descent stage, the engine separated the ascent stage-consisting of the ascent engine and the two-man LM cockpit-and pulled it away from the descent stage. In one final burn, controllers fired the ascent engine for 6½ minutes before its fuel supply...
Soft sucking lips kiss my left armpit: a coiling kiss on myriad veins. I burn! I crumple like a burning leaf! From my right armpit a fang of flame leaps out. A starry snake has kissed me: a cold nightsnake. I am lost! -Nora...
...explosion ignited other cans of methanol in the room, turning it into what a witness called "a mass of smoke and flame...
...humanitarianism, diplomacy and hard-nosed dumping of surplus crops, the overseas program by 1971 will require payments in dollars rather than soft currencies, and ostensibly will make nations push their own food supply. Meanwhile, laboratories continue to cultivate new ideas. The latest range from weeding row crops with flame throwers and laying asphalt hardpans for instant upland rice paddies all the way to the science-fiction realm. One scheme being seriously examined in pilot plants involves making protein food from...
...explain the way a safety match works, for example, they begin with a log not yet stripped of its bark. Then they relentlessly pursue the wood -carefully identified as poplar-through the entire manufacturing process. Reluctantly they abandon the description when the match has finally been ignited, the flame extinguished and the reader's interest has burned...