Word: flamingly
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...front in a small military convoy of Land Rovers. The mist rising from the Shatt al Arab waterway is steamy, the sky so luminous that it seems ready to burst into flame. There was shelling during the night from the Iranian artillery five miles away, but people seem unperturbed as they open their shops, till their fields and move cargoes along the waterway in long, canoe-shaped dhows...
George Cusack ran out of his brick bungalow across the street from the plane's deadly path. "There was a wall of flame all across the street," he said. "I thought I was in hell." The flames were shooting 200 ft. into the gray sky. Gas tanks of burning cars erupted, adding to the din. "It was all rain and fire," said May Maggiore, a grandmother. "I ran up and down the street screaming...
...Atlantic City, N.J., garbage can, attempting some clumsy metaphorical gesture, and grabbed headlines, air time and a disproportionate share of posterity. If "libbers" were the dreary drones of the movement, "bra burners" were the lacy lunatic fringe. (A note: no bras were actually burned that day. Not a single flame was lighted, not in any sense.) "Bra burners" was a convenient, slightly comic way of dismissing demands and resisting confrontations that had been deferred too long. Those women were a curiosity and thus a comfort to the opposition...
DIVORCED. David Frost, 43, peripatetic, sometimes abrasive British TV interviewer-producer; and Lynne Frederick, 28, actress and widow of Peter Sellers, who married her old flame. Frost, six months after the actor's death; after 17 months of marriage, no children; in Switzerland...
...soldiers crouched as bullets from the ship whistled past." Hundreds of men rushed along the decks of both ships, pulling on life jackets and leaping into water that was sometimes aflame with burning oil. Bright orange life rafts were thrown into the sea; some immediately burst into flame as they were hit by debris from the explosions, while others were blown by fierce winds back into the inferno. The winds whipped up huge flames aboard the landing vessels, and then, as fuel tanks exploded, the ships were enveloped in black, acrid smoke...