Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fleet of 33 fire trucks converged, sirens moaning, on the burning wrecks. By the time they got there, flame was shooting 300 feet into the air and heat was melting overhead trolley wires, and turning the asphalt paving to lava. Five nearby houses and buildings were on fire. There was nothing to do but pump in water and chemicals, clear the buildings-and wait...
...minutes later, after the last flame was out, the police, with airiness screaming, drew up. They then proceeded to call the fire department. The freshmen examined the stores front, congratulated the amateur fire fighters, and left. Damage was estimated at $56. How much of this was caused by the milkshakes could not be determined...
...workman threw a bucketful of water down on Dominick. Another squirted a fire extinguisher at him. The fire puffed out. Dominick had made no sound, but he had endured fearful burns. His shirt was all but gone, he had breathed flame, and his throat and lungs were scorched. The rescue work stopped and Dr. Harold Berson, a young intern from Coney Island Hospital, was lowered to him. He greased the burns and gave Dominick morphine; a priest was lowered, performed the last rites of the Catholic Church...
...last week when something about the throb of a nearby aircraft made her look up at the sky through the kitchen window. She was just in time to see a plane explode in the air over a neighbor's barn, then crash in a great ball of orange flame in a nearby field. "Lester," cried Mrs. Kipp to her husband, "go help the people...
Philip and Mary announce their engagement, but they are no match for Mama Weatherby, who doesn't want her son to marry anybody as dreary as Mary is. While pretending to plan their marriage, she subtly sabotages it. Meanwhile she makes an all-out play for her old flame, Pomfret, with cozy dinners, warm reminders of old excitements, heartbreaking tears and a comfortable readiness to be kissed at the right moment. At the novel's end, Mary and Philip have gone off in different directions, but their elders are floating in the old euphoria...