Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President pinned a sprig of shamrocks on his lapel and joined the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick at their annual dinner. During the week he pressed, as all Presidents must, a couple of ceremonial buttons: one. on the Republican Party's 100th birthday, that lighted up an "eternal flame" at the little schoolhouse in Ripon. Wis. where the G.O.P. was born; the other activated the big new Fort Randall Dam on the Upper Missouri River (see BUSINESS...
Like most children's drawings, these have the beauty of the gem raw from the mine. The sun is a spoked yellow wheel, a whale a colossal comma. Cannibals are orange, and look like fierce textiles. Flame is a fluttering rose. Whereas the best professional cartoons-those made by U.P.A. (TIME, Sept. 14)-seem like fine artifice, this one feels like crude...
...Many [students] have devised ingenious flame throwers, and others carry plastic water pistols loaded with searing or blinding chemical solutions. One resourceful youngster joined the National Guard, lying about his age, for the sole purpose of stealing a submachine...
...suggests by intense colors and dimly defined, erratic shapes. Tamayo can still terrorize, as in his Seized Cat, which shows an unworldly animal screaming and clawing in a frenzy of fury, but he seems now to want to avoid upsetting his audience. Heated Discussion, although done in disturbing flame reds, shows two comically human figures locked in eternal argument; each figure has his eyes and ears turned away from his antagonist, more interested in his own arguments than his opponent...
...tank cars, filled with gasoline, from a freight which had run off the track ten minutes earlier. Before the Mail's engineer could even slam on his brakes, the locomotive was plowing through the tank cars. An explosion rent the air, and the first two cars burst into flame like struck matches. A thick column of smoke boiled into the air as the fire spread along the wooden ties setting car after car aflame. Before the flames reached his car, Foreign Minister Zafrullah Khan was hauled to safety, but others were not so lucky. Despite an official claim...