Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rapidly. Then with a doomlike crash, it plowed through a house, smashed into a parking lot and disintegrated. Terrified men, women & children all through the block were thrown out of bed,knocked off their feet, buried or bruised by smashed plaster and fallen timbers. At the same split second, flame from blazing floods of aviation gasoline burst into great curtains of fire. Clouds of smoke, and of steam created by the driving rain, billowed skyward. Trees filled magically with nightgowns and lingerie from the cargo...
Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass...
Plastic Foam. A new sponge-like plastic foam was shown at the National Plastics Exposition in Philadelphia. The makers, Bakelite Division of Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., call it more resistant to flame and chemicals than foam rubber. Almost odorless, the foam does not deteriorate with age or from moisture or acids. Among the uses: seat cushions and a backing for furniture upholstery...
...idea of an Evil Being is as basic as belief in a supreme God. Devils were a keystone of belief among the Aztecs, the Assyrians and the ancient Chinese. In the Buddhist scriptures, the Devil Mara appears at the head of an army of demons with "bodies of flame . .. with the skin of oxen, asses, boars . . . spitting snake venom-and swallowing balls of fire...
...Militant nationalism, smoldering for 50 years, burst suddenly into open flame when the French jailed political leader Habib Bourguiba...