Word: flamingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador Yvan Maisky quietly called on Sir John Simon and on Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Trade. The result of these conversations was reported to Moscow and to Ramsay MacDonald: When the trial ends, a verdict of Guilty will almost certainly be pronounced, a verdict that will flame in every Soviet newspaper, BUT this verdict may be appealed to the Presidium of the Union Central Executive Committee which has the power to transmute death or prison sentences to deportation from Russia-IF the British embargo is not proclaimed and a new trade agreement is signed...
...cowled man commanded the Friar, and a lambent flame filled the chimney, cheering the room, driving out the chill mist. From the empty cupboard the servant produced a bottle of Maliga sacke and a fat capon. While the spitted fowl drank in the fire the monk talked of himself, of the joys of youth. "Thou'rt younge yet," be smiled. "And so was I, onely, methinks, a few houres gone. In everie pleasure reioycing, I imployed myselfe with all the wilde antickes of the sences. An apless knave, dauncing with the trulls, keping my stomacke better than my soule...
...illuminated "as if someone had turned on a great blue electric light." A core of blue brilliance seemed to rush toward him from a high altitude about 300 mi. away. The brilliance lasted eight or ten seconds, then broke into two clouds- one brilliant blue, the other yellow and flame-colored. The clouds soon seemed to merge. The luminescence faded after a half-hour. Groundlings at Albuquerque noted the gaseous glow for half an hour. Colorado Springs saw it for three times as long. The few groundlings who saw the meteor itself called its color blue-white...
Great gobbets of flame and fiery debris were flung from the exploding wreckage, quickly igniting an adjacent house, five of whose occupants were injured. Fire engines nudged through crowds of terrified spectators to find both dwellings blazing, roaring pyres. The impact and explosion had been heard several miles away...
...side of the Allies and finally brought us to intervention. Secondly, there is the fact that Hitler came to power through a burst of national hysteria and may have to retain power through hysterical procedures. He has used nationalism as a pretext; he may find that the flame will have to be fanned industriously if he is to remain its particular guardian...