Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Is the Best." The graceful rocket strained on its launcher as its engines built thrust. It lifted in grandeur in the morning sun, trailing a white-hot fire that looked like an inverted candle flame. Seconds after lifting-first slowly, then ever faster-Vanguard's farewell roar reverberated over the Cape in a blanket of sound. Half a mile from the pad, Canaveral men cheered: "Go, baby, go! Keep going, baby! Don't quit, baby...
...Cape, the cheers had long since faded. But the unself-conscious awe that swept over the missilemen and other observers hung on from the first moment of the rocket's majestic birth and the first wild dance of flame that fired it. Said one man: "There was something about the way it went up. No nonsense. It seemed to know what...
White-maned, Yankee-hating Edmund Ruffin watched the signal shot burst over Charleston harbor, seeming to trace in its flame the palmetto emblem of South Carolina. He had left his Virginia plantation, carrying with him a pike appropriated from John Brown's abolitionist band (its Ruffin-inscribed label: "Sample of the favors designed for us by our Northern brethren"), to see his dream of disunion come true. This-4:30 a.m.. April 12, 1861-was his great moment. Edmund Ruffin stepped proudly forward, pulled the lanyard of a columbiad and sent the first of some 600 rebel shells...
This sort of organization seems to be spreading. In thickly populated Eastern states the cops hamper even the more serious rocketeers, but in Texas, Utah and other states with plenty of room, many societies of intent teenagers, under proper supervision, are aiming their flame-tipped tubes...
...symbols of 1957 were two pale, clear streaks of light that slashed across the world's night skies and a Vanguard rocket toppling into a roiling mass of flame on a Florida beach...