Word: flames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Democrats indulge in spontaneity. Freedom of speech and action are the Democracy's cardinal tenets. No leader is so small or obscure that he cannot pop up and make himself heard. Because the Party is individualistic and sectional, it has a habit of bursting into flame over principles and personalities. Where Republicans smother their differences in committee, Democrats fight theirs out in public. Where Republicans represent the People, Democrats are the People?noisy, emotional, opinionated. In conventions assembled they generate an atmosphere where almost anything can happen...
...Santiago, bewildered by these developments, three schools of rumor held sway: 1) that former Dictator Carlos Ibanez, still supposed to be exiled in Argentina last week, might be expected back in Santiago at any time to resume his interrupted Presidency (TIME, Aug. 3); 2) that anti-foreign sentiment would flame up and sweep to power Senator Manuel Hidalgo. Communist, who ran in Chile's last presidential election on a platform of confiscating "Cosach," splitting up Chile's vast landed estates among the peasants and repudiating the national debt; 3) that the Army & Navy strongmen would postpone the selection...
...also she set a speed record from Harbor Grace of 14 hr. 56 min. Advance reports of good weather she found "100% wrong." Ice on the wings forced her down into rain, fog and gusty squalls, perilously close to the water. Her altimeter failed. A broken exhaust ring spurted flame. Gasoline from a leaky gauge dripped down her neck. But still she flew low because "I'd rather drown than burn up." Pushed north by beam winds she met the shore of Northern Ireland, set her ship down on a farm field...
...rain-soaked, earthen cliffs that tower above the Rhone had sent a heaving mass of mud hurtling down Caliure Hill where it burst like a tidal wave upon two apartment houses, shattering and engulfing them, ripping open water mains which spouted and gas mains which promptly burst into flame. A little further down the very street on which the two apartment houses had stood is the comfortable bourgeois home of Edouard Herriot, for 25 years Mayor of Lyon, Leader of the Radical-Socialist Party, outstanding French statesman of the Left Centre, and therefore apparently destined to succeed Right-Centreman Tardieu...
...look interesting," he told a young woman who was bending over a retort, heating it gently with a darting Bunsen flame. "Just keep that pose and I'll snap...