Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While British property and security disappeared in the flames of Egyptian nationalism last week (see above), alarm bells rang out for an ominous blaze in French territory 800 miles to the west. Militant nationalism, smoldering in the protectorate of Tunisia for some 50 of France's 71 years of sovereignty, had burst suddenly into open flame. Over the years, France had granted Tunisians more & more voice in their internal affairs in an effort to stave off Tunisian demands for independence. Over the years, Tunisia's nationalists, led by a dynamic yet reasonable and sternly anti-Communist Arab named...
...enveloped her breasts and her face, her throat, her tired belly, her knees, her thighs and her feet. She lay with shut eyes, the colour of rosy flame through her lids ... She reached and put leaves over her eyes. Then she lay again, like a long white gourd in the sun, that must ripen to gold ... She was beginning to feel warm right through. Turning over, she let her shoulders dissolve in the sun, her loins, the backs of her thighs, even her heels. And she lay half stunned ... (page...
...lower Bronx, the dope users are classed by age as "seniors" (16-18 years), "juniors" (13-15), and "midgets" (11-12). They buy from peddlers who refuse to sell to anyone older than 18 lest he turn out to be a detective. ¶ Sweaters have been bursting into flame all over the country. The phenomenon began about a month ago in Los Angeles when an auto driver's sweater took fire as he lit a cigarette. By last week a score of similar cases had been reported as far east as New England; there were no deaths but numerous...
Keeper of the Flame. In London, Mrs. Catherine Towersey won a second divorce after charging her husband with carrying on with the same woman she had named as corespondent in 1934 when she divorced him the first time...
...dogs get along as well as their owners, but the children resist each other and their prospective stepparents. Heflin suffers pratfalls at the hands of Patricia's boys and an embarrassing visit from an old flame (Virginia Field). Patricia, goaded by jealousy and split loyalties, is wooed by the head counselor (Richard Denning). It appears that widower may lose widow, but the children, ever wise in grown-up ways, trick their parents into getting together again...