Word: flamingly
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...Yankee Clipper, dropping down to a river landing at Lisbon, skimmed the water with a wing tip, suddenly burst into a flower of flame and cut under the surface. Of 39 men & women aboard, 24 were lost. Among the missing: Musicomedienne Tamara (one of a party of USO entertainers), New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Ben Robertson. Three of the survivors rescued by trawler crews: Radio Singer Jane Froman, Nightclub Entertainer Gypsy Markoff, William Butterworth, First Secretary of the U.S. Legation in Lisbon. Rescued Captain R. O. D. Sullivan, pilot of the ship, had no explanation for the first fatal accident...
...flame thrower...
...smoldering bitterness of U.S. Negroes against segregation in the services flared into flame again last week. This time the fuel was laid by respected onetime Federal Judge William H. Hastie, dean of Howard University Law School. Explaining this week why he had resigned as Negro civilian aide to the Secretary of War, he charged the Army Air Forces was discriminating against Negroes...
...signal came that night. There was the moan of aircraft in the moonlit night, bombs began to rain on the enemy's position. For half an hour shells screamed overhead, throwing up a bright light of flame when they landed...
Each day the Bombay Chronicle ran a picture of a lamp flame. Each day the flame was smaller. It was the only way that censorship could be circumvented on the most dramatic political story since Mohandas K. Gandhi's Congress party was suppressed last August. The flame symbolized the waning strength of bearded, mystical Professor J. P. Bhansali, Gandhi's close and devoted follower, during a 61-day hunger strike...