Word: flamingly
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...Flame & Rubble. It was too late. In the next instant there happened what many a Manhattanite had often predicted and feared. The ten-ton airplane, flying at an estimated speed of 225 m.p.h., crashed head-on into the north side of the Empire State Building at the level of the 78th and 79th floors...
...bombardment had been scheduled to start at 11 p.m. but the force was late in reaching the firing course. It was 11:14 when the Iowa belched the flame of a full, nine-gun broadside which threw her several feet crabwise through the black water. Then her sister ships and the British joined in: broadside after broadside of 2,100-and 1,560-lb. shells screeched through...
...wooden shed alongside, crewmen helped stevedores heave cargo aboard the Hamonic. A few of the passengers gawked at them from the top deck. Others were at breakfast in the long salon, and many were still in their staterooms. Suddenly a truck on the pier backfired and burst into flame. When the fire reached the gasoline tank, a rolling blaze swept up the ship's side, billowed over the deck...
...reached his target he was flying very low, and he seemed to pull up a bit in an effort to hit the bridge. From the blackness a huge ball of orange flame spouted heavenward. Now the Ti was in great trouble. "She is still shooting, but she is going to sink sure as hell," said an officer beside...
...from quiet was the clamor against Padilla as a too obedient friend of the U.S. State Department. In the interest of Pan-American unity, he had favored admitting Argentina to the United Nations conference at San Francisco. Anti-U.S. feeling, always smoldering in Mexico, recently burst into flame with a series of speeches and newspaper articles against Padilla. His collaboration with the U.S., they charged, had turned into "entreguismo" (selling out). A damaging rumor went the rounds-that U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith was urging President Harry S. Truman to use U.S. influence to make Padilla President of Mexico...