Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outbreaks, which were touched off by an afternoon water fight between the third and fourth floor occupants of Hollis North, flared again Sunday night as a sheet of flame rose high into the air in front of University Hall. Unknown persons poured gasoline on the ground and ignited it to kindle the blaze...
Fireproof Cloth. A new fireproofing solution for cloth was demonstrated at the National Safety Congress in Chicago by Treesdale Laboratories and Textile Processing Co. of Pittsburgh. Cloth treated with Permaproof will not flame at heats up to 4,500° F., can be laundered repeatedly without losing its fireproofing. It is already being used by several steel companies for cloth smocks to replace the heavy asbestos suits formerly worn by workers...
...Pray." Dense, black smoke billowed through the port passages and compartments below decks, boiled out of hatches and rose in a pall above the Leyte. A second explosion and a withering blast of heat and flame followed, searing everything in its path. On the third deck, Steward Osie Ward and ten of his shipmates were trapped in the stewards' compartment. "A big flame came down the hatchway to our compartment," said Ward. "At first we didn't react. But a split second later the same thing happened again. One of the men, who was getting ready...
...almost everything. The New York Herald Tribune's Clementine Paddleford. whose Sunday This Week column appears all over the U.S., reported that housewives in her home territory, Manhattan, Kans., are turning to gourmet dishes barely a step behind amateur cooks in her adopted town. "Everybody wants to do flame cooking," said she. "And in Chicago, they want the flame three feet high. I always look for a fire escape...
...with fortitude and kisses. Next, commissioned in the British army, he ships to Canada, outwits Montcalm, helps Wolfe win his great victory at Quebec, returns to England a hero and is assigned by Pitt himself to a delicate diplomatic mission in Paris. There, naturally, he finds his steady old flame Maritza, still possessed of a local reputation for chastity. Happy of heart, Richard and Maritza leave the vanity of Europe behind and sail for the New World to raise Americans...