Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city of the rich Cauca River Valley. In a district jammed with factories, warehouses and slums, the drivers bedded down for the night with their cargo-more than 30 tons of high explosives. At 1:07 a.m., like 30 blockbusters, the cargo blew up, in a tower of red flame and seething of black smoke...
...from the outside it just looks like a pimple." The concrete, 150 ft. bell tower near by will house an electronic carillon system "to match any in the world." And day and night its top will flare with a big natural-gas torch that Pastor Alexander calls "The Flame of Religious Freedom." Still in the planning stage: a youth center with swimming pool, gymnasium, tennis courts and dance floor. Some of Bill's parishioners wonder how they ever got along with their old church...
...France radioactive rain has become a specialty of the Communist press, which blames almost every malaise on U.S. (but not Soviet) bomb tests. The Communist daily Liberation told how growing vegetables were yellowed, how a vineyard was burned "as if by a flame thrower," how an elderly farmer was rained on, felt a prickling sensation and turned yellow all over. French rain does occasionally show a slight amount of radioactivity, but it is never enough to do damage to humans, certainly not enough to blast the leaves off grapevines...
...Dashes. Duke's Dave Sime broke from the starting blocks in his trial heat, took four strides and collapsed onto the track, a flame of pain burning in his groin. The U.S. Olympic Committee had waived a sound rule, but on sound sentiment, to allow Sime to compete in the 200 meters after the same pulled muscle kept him from qualifying at the N.C.A.A. trials. But Sime could not even finish the 100, and slamming his fist against a locker-room door later, he moaned: "What shall I do now? What?" Abilene Christian's Bobby Morrow, perhaps...
...days the sunburned soldiers dragged through the precipitous valleys and pine-covered mountain slopes, and then, as the area narrowed down, the fugitive Grivas (if indeed it was he) began to take refuge behind brush fires. Suddenly, with a change of wind, the whole area of pine forest took flame, engulfed a platoon of British soldiers...