Word: flamingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans are finding new romance in an old flame...
...limiting the amount of oxygen reaching the wood; it also trapped the heat inside the combustion chamber so that it radiated more evenly throughout the room. Modern stoves have become even more efficient through airtight construction, the use of baffles that pass the hot air back over the flame to improve combustion (and heat) and in some cases thermostats and blowers that circulate the warm air. Although some heat is thereby lost, in many stoves the doors can be temporarily folded back, leaving a clear view of the dancing flames-as in a fireplace. A compromise between the Franklin...
...government, business and labor attended a state funeral for Schleyer. As police sharpshooters perched on the rooftops of buildings that surrounded St. Eberhard's Church, President Walter Scheel in his eulogy described the struggle against terrorism as "the fight of civilization against barbarians." Declared Scheel: "If this flame is not smothered immediately, the brushfire will spread over the whole world...
There is a moment in Holy the Firm when Annie Dillard watches a candle flame consume a golden female moth. The moth's abdomen catches in the wet wax and her wings "ignited like tissue paper, enlarging the circle of light in the clearing." Her antennae crackle, her legs disappear and her body is reduced to a glowing shell. "And then," relates Dillard, "this moth-essence, this spectacular skeleton, began to act as a wick ... She burned for two hours, until I blew...
...moth and the flame is an old device that Dillard uses in a fresh manner...