Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missiles and missile launchers are racking up a business of $10 million a year. *Where Kin Tartars, defending the city against the rampaging Mongols, used both fire-powder bombs and "flying fire spears" which "burst forward with a sudden flame to a distance of ten paces and upward so that no one durst approach them...
...plot is fanciful, and half-believable, with one glaring exception; Sister Angela laments having to eat raw fish, and then gets sick eating it, but repeatedly prays before lit votary candles, somehow missing the potentiality of the flame before...
...valley a few school youngsters spotted the violent flash of orange and yellow flame in the sky. The shredding planes veered away from each other, the smaller Scorpion plummeting to a puff of smoke in the green-brown Verdugo hills to the northeast. The DC-7B at first spiraled lazily, then, its dive steepening, went into a twisting spin, finally plunged with a thunderous roar onto the lawn of the Pacoima Congregational Church, just a block from the Junior High School. There on the athletic fields, 220 seventh-and eighth-grade boys were moving back into the gymnasium...
...stopped, a shot rang out from the village, the police answered with another, and Sadhu Raghubaranand fell to the ground, his shoulder grazed. Frightened and screaming, the villagers scattered. Some dashed into a hut and bolted the door. More shots followed. The hut's grass roof burst into flame, and as panicked villagers streamed out again, the police fired a few more rounds. When the last shot was fired, three more men and four women lay dead...
...hours later, a truck driver spotted The Body wandering dazed along a highway, her hair sand-matted, some fingernails broken, face cut and bruised, two caps missing from her front teeth. After Marie, heavily shrouded and eerily resembling a Picasso portrait, had left a hospital with her current flame, Cinemactor Michael Wilding, the cops themselves were arguing about the evidence. Why had Marie's captors foolishly let her make three phone calls? How come a doctor found "no evidence of any type of criminal attack"? Sighed Marie's ex-husband No. 3 and 4, Shoe Shogun Harry Karl...