Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hong Kong these days, retired Chinese Nationalists have suddenly become as sought after as elderly bachelors in June. Red China's emissaries work overtime, attempting to kindle in them a new rose-red love, while the agents of Chiang Kai-shek try to respark the old flame...
...hair, a handsome profile and the glamorous job of putting on revues at South Wind. To the despair of Noel's aspiring, pimply assistant, Wally Wronken, Airman is a triple-threat man-an artist, a libertine and an intellectual who can shred phony highbrows "like a flame thrower...
Wright's peroration passed almost unnoticed, since all eyes were suddenly directed to the arrival of a flame-red, air-conditioned Buick out of which flounced Mrs. Mary Tulula ("Militant Mary") Cain, a solidly constructed 50-year-old, who edits the weekly Summit Sun. One of seven children of a railway maintenance supervisor, Mary Cain was born in a railroad camp car and has never stopped rolling ("Never seems to get tired," says her husband, a filling-station operator). Mrs. Cain made her opponents' language seem almost tolerant...
What happens next is known only in the innermost nuclear circles, if it is known there. Some outside guessers think that the reaction, once started, will be self-sustaining. The nuclear fire will sweep through the lithium deuteride like a flame through dry excelsior. Others believe that the reaction will have to be stimulated, continuously or intermittently, by energy from outside...
Magnanimous jets of flame against...