Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faithful and You're the One (Frank Sinatra; Columbia). Alongside today's acrobatic baritones, the flame of the '40s sounds tame in two pleasant new ballads...
...afternoon last autumn, opened the door of his son's bedroom and found himself staring at a terrifying tableau. His son, a 15-year-old vocational-school student, was sitting there, one forearm bared, a hypodermic syringe in his hand. Another boy was holding a teaspoon over the flame of a cigarette lighter. Both the syringe and the teaspoon contained heroin...
Titanium dioxide is found in nature in black or brown crystals known to mineralogists as "rutile." When the pure oxide, finely powdered, is fed through an oxyacetylene flame, it collects in a solid, carrot-shaped "boule." At first the boule is black, but careful heating turns it to a very faint yellow, the color of good-quality "Cape diamonds." Stones of almost any color, including blue, green and deep yellow, can be made by doctoring the oxide with small amounts of impurities...
...flipped a switch, and a beam of strong light bore down through the flare-light. "Roger, Firefly, Roger," said the Invader pilot. He dived through winking flashes of small-arms fire and dropped two tanks of napalm on the hill, which burst into flame. "That's good, that's good, Firefly," exulted Bandbox. "That's right in there. Give 'em a few more...
...paying for musical entertainment, and not for music I don't enjoy jammed down my throat. Meantime, I have gone back to my old flame...