Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old boy and a bottle of gasoline." Ferenc put a handkerchief in the mouth of the bottle, tipped the bottle up to soak it with gas, set the handkerchief alight and dropped the "benzine flash" on the rear end of the tank. Says he: "An enormous flame shot up, and the whole street looked like day. There was a terrible explosion, and the front part of the roof started to cave in. The boy and I ran to the chimney at the back of the roof. Russians on top of the roof across the street from us?I hadn...
...Melbourne's largest funeral parlor took down its "Welcome to Olympic Visitors" sign, and airline flights were so solidly booked that one desperate spectator tried to get shipped home as freight. In the Olympic stadium, the gas was turned off and the Olympic flame, symbol of sporting competition, flickered out for another four years...
...cell, eating off a tray. Other prisoners were lining up in the corridor outside, almost ready for the march to the mess hall. Suddenly, through the iron bars of Hudson's door came a soaking spray of lacquer thinner, followed by a lighted match. The cell exploded in flame, searing through 25 coats of paint on the wall, melting an overhead electric light-and sending Jim Hudson, afire, shrieking in agony, to rage at the bars that held him in. He lived long enough to whisper a name: "Will Hummel...
...Olympic flame was extinguished Saturday after 16 days of competition in Australia. Thousands of athletes from the 69 participating nations gathered to hear the games officially closed...
...later, if he remembered it, the entry must have made him uneasy. On July 9, 1861 Fanny was sealing a package that contained a lock of one of her children's hair. Her sleeve caught fire, and in a moment her light summer dress became a sheath of flame. Trying to save her, Longfellow was himself seriously burned. The next day Fanny Longfellow was dead, and from then on Henry's quota of suffering was enough for any poet. It never made him a great one, but 18 years after the event he wrote...