Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tanks wheeled into position to advance. Directly in front of the lead tank lay the body of a Red soldier who had been caught in the burst of a white phosphorus shell. The corpse was still burning as the tank's right tread passed over it, extinguishing the flame and grinding the body into a grisly compost of flesh and cinders...
...early morning of Sept. 15, when our LSD slipped into the channel leading to Wolmi, the atmosphere had grown tight. Shortly before 3 a.m. we saw bright, distant flashes of gunfire. The naval bombardment had begun. By 4:30 a tongue of flame was licking upward from the direction of Inchon. Aboard the LSD two lines of marines groped their way from troops' compartments to the three LSUs. A young marine said wistfully: "Three months ago I was so happy...
...decision of President Truman on June 27 lighted into flame a lamp of hope throughout Asia that was burning dimly towards extinction. It marked for the Far East the focal and turning point in this area's struggle for freedom. It swept aside in one monumental stroke all of the hypocrisy and the sophistry which has confused and deluded so many people distant from the actual scene...
First the gasoline erupted into a tall, twisting pillar of bright flame. In its glare, the 200 families in the trailers, little more than a B-29's length away, stumbled out of their homes and back into the darkness. Then, while seven fire trucks pumped Foamite into the flames, the bombs went off, blasting a crater as big as a bungalow. Bodies were blown back across the field, the fire trucks rolled up like the tops of sardine cans, the trailers and their little picket fences were smashed, as one witness put it, "like a giant had stepped...
...thrills it came for. Tearing along at 50 m.p.h., one car lost a rear wheel, dragged 100 yards on its axle before it stopped. The crash broke the fuel tank, spewed gas along the track. Friction set the fuel on fire, leaving a 100-yd. blanket of flame along the right of way. The driver escaped. So did another whose car later spun out of control at 40 m.p.h., crashed head-on into an entrance gate. A Soldier Field electrician who was caught in the crush was less fortunate; he was carried off with a fractured skull...