Word: flamingly
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...Germans tried to hold back the weight of Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' U.S. First Army in the Aachen sector. They threw in flame-spouting tanks in three fierce attacks. But the Americans stood...
...people of Los Angeles were awakened by six rapid, violent explosions. The Los Angeles Times building had been dynamited. In four minutes it was a roaring mass of flame. The Times's 46-year-old assistant general manager, Harry Chandler, who happened to be on the street outside, took brisk, efficient charge of the disaster. But when it was over, 20 mangled Times employes had died in the fire or leaped to their deaths on the pavement...
...Churchill spied Eleanor Roosevelt, in a flame-colored dress, with matching hat. "Hello, there," she said, and they began a brisk conversation, walking over to greet the Princess Alice, wife of Canada's rigidly correct Governor-General, the Earl of Athlone. Fala scurried about, sniffing the shoes of the famous...
...Allies had weapons not contemplated in Corporal Hitler's 1939 conception of a West Wall. The Allies had new and proved techniques: multiplane bombardments, vastly developed artillery, flame-squirting tanks...
...minutes past 3 on the afternoon of Saturday, August 26, General de Gaulle bent his tall, awkward body below the Arc de Triomphe and laid on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier two bunches of flame-colored gladioli. The flame at the tomb still burned. De Gaulle laid a Cross of Lorraine, fashioned of white roses, beside the gladioli, and stood at attention while a bugler sounded Aux Marts (taps...