Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practice field, under the orange & black helmet that adds an anonymizing grimness to his features, Kazmaier shows more of the fussiness of the perfectionist than the jet-flaming drive of a great halfback. But the flame is building up: it appears on Saturdays. On the first play from scrimmage he is so tense that Quarterback Stevens has standing instructions not to let him handle the ball.* Once the warmup of the first play is over, Kazmaier takes...
Youth today is waiting for the hand of fate to fall on its shoulders, meanwhile working fairly hard and saying almost nothing. The most startling fact about the younger generation is its silence. With some rare exceptions, youth is nowhere near the rostrum. By comparison with the Flaming Youth of their fathers & mothers, today's younger generation is a still, small flame. It does not issue manifestoes, make speeches or carry posters. It has been called the "Silent Generation." But what does the silence mean? What, if anything, does it hide? Or are youth's elders merely hard...
...gripes about his officers, distrusts politics and government (it is universally believed that "Harry Vaughan can transfer any man"). He does not go in for heroics, or believe in them. He is short on ideals, lacks self-reliance, is for personal security at any price. He singularly lacks flame. In spite of this, he makes a good, efficient soldier-relying on superior firepower...
...West Coast hot-rod fiends have been making pedestrians leap like kangeroos ever since some nameless hot-rodder rigged a sparkplug in his exhaust pipe and made a profound discovery-that waste gases, thus ignited, produce a spectacular "hoosh" of flame. Last week the Portland, Ore. city council was taking steps to make hot-rod flame-throwing illegal. But the fad was moving faster than the lawmakers ; Longview, Wash, reported with nervous pride that a local rodder was regularly getting a six-foot "hoosh...
...long cotton housecoat and a pair of men's shoes and hopped from one foot to the other, frightened, ludicrous and heroic at once. A neighbor rushed up with an extension ladder, got it against the side of the building and started up. Then thick smoke and flame burst out of the windows below the woman. It drove the man off the ladder and enveloped her. She sank to the ledge and lay still. She was dead when firemen arrived, 30 minutes after the blaze had begun...