Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wind & Flame. The following day Hazel made her crashing entrance into the U.S., ripping at fishing piers and crumpling bungalows along the Carolina coast. Eighty big Navy vessels fled to sea from Norfolk, Va., while military planes scrambled for safe airports as far away as Kansas. In Washington the General Services Administration, prudent and economical, ordered flags hauled down from most federal buildings; one left up on the Capitol was whipped to shreds. Chicken houses in rural Maryland collapsed by the hundreds, and incubator stoves set the wreckage on fire. The windy night was rosy with flame, and terrified, liberated...
...life. Leave your seat now and come forward. If you have friends or relatives here, they'll wait on you. Whether you're old or young, or rich or poor, white or colored-come quietly up now and say. 'Billy, tonight I accept Christ.' " The Flame Around the World. Night after night in New Orleans' 16,000 capacity Pelican Stadium, this gaunt young man with the Hickey-Freeman clothes and the eagle-sharp manner is bringing men and women down from the packed stands and up the length of the baseball field to make "decisions...
...dribbled a thin stream of the stuff down a corridor, into an empty study room, and up the front wall. On the wall he scrawled, with the almost invisible liquid, a shocking word. Next period, when the room was full, he set a match to the hair tonic. Blue flame whooshed through the room, and the handwriting on the wall that day was nothing short of illuminating...
...power-starved lands, and called on the U.S. for an all-out competitive effort "to put atomic power plants into operation, both here and abroad." For the first grant of a nuclear power reactor, Commissioner Murray suggested Japan-"the only land which has been engulfed in the white flame of the atom. Now, while the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remains so vivid, construction of such a power plant in . . . Japan would be a dramatic and Christian gesture . . . a lasting monument to our technology and our good will. We would demonstrate to a grim, skeptical and divided world that...
...special section of Art News Annual (out next month), Wittgens recalls the highlights of the cleaning: "It was found when the restorations were removed that Judas' tunic was bright blue with traces of gold around the collar and that Christ's garment turned out to be flame red, a symbol of His sacrifice. [Before the cleaning job, it was a dirty lime.] In the landscape some bright blue water came to light [and] now the glossy pewter utensils reflect the most subtle gradations of color in the robes of the apostles, the roseate or deep red brilliance...