Word: flamingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...observes the accused patrolman and discerns how he writhes his swollen eyeballs to watch both his civilian accuser and the police lieutenant, how gaily his hand trembles as the lieutenant bends to record "assault" upon the ledger, how he whips out his pistol and spures the flame, one cannot but admire the felicitous workmanship, polished, final...
...principle of heat-induced ice is simple. Apply a vacuum pump to water, draw off the vapor, the result is ice. Silica gel grains act as a pump. In the pores of the silica gel, the vapor liquefies, giving it enormous power to absorb vapor. With a small flame under the gel the condensed vapor is driven off, so that its absorbent qualities are unimpaired until the remaining water is frozen...
...have wished you wounded, I have wished you dead, I have wished you blackened by a wind of flame, But let me wish for each of you instead That he may live to cringe at his own name...
...pilot. Each evening the paterfamilias, as family priest, lit the pilot, handed it most carefully over to his youngest to light; on the first night of Channukah, one taper, on the second two, until on the eighth night the children blinked with dazzled delight before the nine bright, golden flame-tips that bobbed, nodded, winked above the nine yellow tapers of wax or paraffin. (Candle tallow is generally forbidden to Jews because it might come from a ritually unclean beast...
...getting a judgment for the refund of $600,000 excess profits from the American Road Co., in spite of Mrs. Ferguson's directing the Highway Commission to support the road company. Talk of impeaching Governess Ferguson had been smoldering for several weeks. With the judgment it burst into flame...