Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoping the sun would drive the fog away," she said later. "Then I heard a great hissing and roaring overhead. I thought the mountain below me had exploded." For the next few seconds, shock after shock rent the earth all around her, sending ribbons and streams of flame and debris in all directions. "It was terrible," she said, "but the silence that followed was more terrible still. The birds sang no more and all around me they lay dead...
...ripped loose and scythed through spectators like a guillotine knife. The heavy engine followed, spewing parts. The first row of the crowd was cleanly decapitated. Twenty yards away, the chassis cut another swath. Gasoline took fire; then the Mercedes' magnesium-alloy body went up in a searing white flame. Levegh's headless corpse was burned to a crisp. A 400-sq. yd. stretch of gay and cheering people became a black, hysterical horror...
...Manhattan's 46th Street Theater, but a sentimental Washington baseball fan who has bartered his soul for a .524 batting average gives every sign of welshing on the deal. To secure his investment in this "wife-loving louse," Satan calls in one of his ablest assistants, a flame-haired siren named Lola...
After the yellow lights went off and the thunder of the exhausts rolled again it was all anticlimax. But the race churned on. Cal Niday, a daring, one-legged driver, smacked into the northwest retaining wall and spun across the track in an explosion of greasy smoke and flame. (This week he was still fighting for his life in an Indianapolis hospital.) Steadily, Indianapolis' Bob Sweikert, 29, a home-town hero who had never before even finished the 500, climbed toward the lead in his John Zink Special. At 100 miles he was third; by the halfway mark...
...Small-arms fire was rattling from the Binh Xuyen a couple of blocks down the road, and Nationalist Tommy-gun fire rattled back at them. Next came the sullen, unmistakable, paralyzing crump of mortars, three in the courtyard outside, filling headquarters with dust and falling plaster. A deep red flame spouted out of a weapons carrier parked next to our car. Black, oily smoke drifted upwards. We could hear a staccato cry ai ai ai from someone who had been...