Word: flamingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only Jupiter. At 1:07 Friday afternoon a pure-white missile, its bottom spitting flame, soared into the blue sky. "Well, I'll tell you," one woman said disappointedly, "that wasn't the big one. I'm sure of that." She was right; it was only the Army's Jupiter, designed to carry a nuclear warhead a mere 1,500 miles...
Zealous Recruiter. For 20 years Iowa-born Poet Engle has fanned the thin flame of poetry down on the farm. He is helped by the fact that the university gives advanced degrees-including a doctorate-in creative writing. Armed with this selling point, Engle recruits fledgling poets with the zeal of a Big Ten football coach wooing a high-school halfback. He gets them jobs on campus, finds them apartments, has even supplied pots and pans for their wives...
With that admission, the pure flame of public anger yellowed and flickered, except for a backfire of resentment against Pearson for having misled public opinion. What had threatened to create a real diplomatic strain between Canada and the U.S. turned instead into an occasion for second thoughts and cooler analysis...
...dust athwart the woods to flame...
...higher energy and higher temperature of combustion, will come close to doubling the range of airplanes. In long-range missiles, they may make the difference between success and failure. They will be expensive (at least $1 per lb.) and probably highly toxic. They will burn with a bright green flame, and their exhaust, a white cloud of solid boron compounds, will be so poisonous to vegetation that tests will have to be run in deserts...