Word: flamingly
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Says Tip O'Neill: "He was a flame under a bushel basket...
...multicolored map of the U.S. appears on the television screen and slowly begins to burn from the center. As the flame widens, voice-over narration accompanies a dramatic juxtaposition of images and objects to conjure up for the viewer a reckless driver, an unconcerned citizen littering a street, a man confronted by a bottle-laden table who declares, "One more won't hurt," and another man's gruff refusal to sign a petition to fight pollution. After the map is burned totally black, a wind begins to scatter the ashes and a deep, doom-ridden voice warns: "Great...
...bootleg bonnet" is a black felt hat used to strain the fresh brew into a barrel. The term "100 proof was originally known as "gunpowder proof because the British found that whisky with about 50% alcohol, when mixed with gunpowder, would burn with a steady blue flame. Moonshining is not a thing of the past, either. As late as 1972, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms destroyed more than 2,000 illicit stills, and admits it barely scratched the surface of the trade...
Sticks of Flame. Between the tents and Khaneh Arneba, the next encampment eight miles away, fires started by detonated mines and exploding demolition charges were eating up miles of brown, sun-withered grain and turning telephone poles into sticks of flame. A column of Israeli tanks rolled by, flags flying. The crews waved perfunctorily, unlike the withdrawal from the Suez, where the soldiers had smiled, sung and even danced as they left. In Egypt, moreover, nobody spoke of having to return...
Christine Johnson got out just in time. The lick of flame was creating an inferno. Dark brown smoke shrouded the structure, then rose high enough to hide a police helicopter hovering over the scene. Sheets of ash the size of magazine pages rose gracefully into the air and floated to earth a half block away...