Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the past years I have paid my respects to quite a few institutions of learning on the North American Continent, and I can say without exaggeration, that Harvard is one of those top institutions of higher learning where the flame of the spirit of true inquiry and purusit of truth in an atmosphere of freedom burns brightly. The administration is alive to the student needs. The range of subjects offered at the University is most impressive and overwhelming...
...troublesome Motion Picture Production Code was originally designed, in 1930, to clean up Hollywood, which in those days was making such hot-blooded pictures as Luring Lips and Flame of Youth. But in recent years, moviemakers aiming for pictures with an adult appeal, and others frankly bent on box-office excitement, have rejected censorship, turn ing the resultant publicity to their advantage. Samples...
...Flame. When Alia returned to Beirut this fall and learned of the marriage negotiations, she laid down conditions. She would marry Sultan if he would join the foreign service and live in Washington, Paris, London, Beirut or any other civilized place. She would not live in Saudi Arabia, where women stay in seclusion. She would never wear a veil. Sultan must marry no other woman and must agree to live his entire life with her. Sultan must put a large sum in escrow just in case he should decide to leave...
...enlisted men who knew how to operate flamethrowers would probably be dead. He organized a flamethrower school for junior officers so they could train new technicians as the division moved along. At one of the training sessions, a young captain spilled napalm on his uniform, which promptly burst into flame. Dean knocked him down in the dirt to extinguish the fire, and some of the flaming liquid spilled on his own leg. Dean was hospitalized, and for a while it looked as though he would miss his cherished dream of battle after all. But when the division embarked for Europe...
...Gurion was the flame," said an Israeli, "the other leaders are all moths." Israel's first and only Premier, Ben-Gurion treated his Cabinet like an impatient schoolmaster, required members to carry around the government's Four-Year Plan and invited them to ask themselves each morning what they had done to further it. Amidst acclamation, he never played the hero's role. Evenings, he and his wife Paula (whom he married in Brooklyn) sat at the kitchen table eating a supper of sour cream, cheese, bread and salad. He clung to the white, open-necked shirt...