Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant white flash lit the horizon, and the pencil-shaped Atlas slowly, silently lifted into the air, gaining speed, her exhausts pushing down neat twin yellow-white flames. Then, almost 8,000 ft. up, one flame trail lengthened, turned orange, mingled with ominous black smoke. The missile lurched to one side, straightened out, began to drop away, spewing metal shards. The trouble: one engine had lost power, thrown the Bird out of kilter, made the missile a safety hazard. On Cape Canaveral test officers quickly reacted, exploded Atlas by remote control. The missile crashed with a thud into the surf...
...must be crisply written to escape the editor's spike. It must be simple enough to be understood by "the milkman in Omaha,"* as an old dictum from New York once put it; at the same time, as former U.President Hugh Baillie once demanded, it is supposed to "flame like a candelabra on a dark and muddy battlefield." Between the milkman and the candelabra...
...later makes the agonized confession that he has been an all-night sucker for the beastly magic of a local witch doctor. Hoping to bridge the gulf between European and African knowledge, he has dabbled in mysterious rites (in one, a man was burned to death by no visible flame) and is now desperately afraid for his soul. The fate of this jungle Dr. Faustus is sealed in what the press calls "the great Clausen scandal." Kenya-raised Novelist Huxley (Red Strangers, The Walled City) has written a literate thriller that is short on gore (despite the unlimited possibilities...
...rear of the workers' truck, threw the truck's people like broken jackstraws across the highway and into the ditches. Twelve of the crumpled people along route 301 were killed outright by the crushing fall; two more were burned alive in a bright ball of gasoline-fed flame. By week's end 20 of the migrants, including four women and a six-month-old boy, had died in what the National Safety Council sadly marked the worst truck collision in U.S. history...
Hard, Gemlike Flame. In Pensacola, Fla., M.J. Helms came to hospital with his wife, who was in serious condition from gunshot wounds, explained to police: "I told her I was crazy, but she wouldn't believe me. So, I shot...