Word: flamingly
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...dropped, in a first-class string, right down the main street. Japanese machine guns were still firing at us. Basye banked steeply so that every gun in our flight could be trained on the machine-gun batteries, and then we let them have it. A flat, scarlet sheet of flame poured down from every turret, every gun of our planes. I could feel our ship rattling, re-echoing the clatter of the guns. Down below...
Remembrance in France. From London came news of a short story, called The Flame, that had been distributed through France in an Office of War Information pamphlet. It told how the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy, traveling through France in 1918, had come upon an elderly priest knocked down by a Navy pilot car. The priest refused personal compensation; instead the Assistant Secretary wrote out a Navy requisition for $200 to pay for releading the windows of the priest's "very lovely old church...
Continued the author of The Flame...
...frank admission: ". . . my lack of politeness. They say you should never get so busy you can't be polite. But Shakespeare, I believe it was, divided people into four groups.* I belong to the group with a low boiling point.. . . I've had plenty of flame applied...
...nearly half an hour the battle raged, two raiders against one freighter. Heavily outgunned, the merchantman made every shell count. Ensign Willett saw the stern of the smaller raider burst into flame. Then a shell blew up the merchantman's main boiler, reduced her speed to one knot. A few seconds later another shell hit the magazine...