Word: flamingly
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...song of midnight dances that churned the sea to flame...
...Another, told that his hand was numb, allowed his palm to be fingered by a match flame...
...Army-camp construction (TIME, Sept. 15), the Senate Defense Investigating Committee last week went after the defense housing program. No sooner had the first witness opened his mouth than one of Washington's smoldering feuds-Federal Works Administrator John Carmody v. Defense Housing Coordinator Charles Palmer-burst into flame. Witness Carmody put his finger on Witness-to-be Palmer as Housing Mismanager...
...hours before dawn one morning last week, Alexandria, La. (pop. 27,000) was wakened by the bangs and bops of rifle fire. In the moonlit streets below bedroom windows flame spurted from Springfields and Garands; from hedges, fences, shadows, machine guns chattered. Streets filled with clanking trucks and sputtering motorcycles. In Louisiana's Army maneuvers, soldiers of three divisions had met in the city, were settling down to fight for its possession. And Alexandria loved it. But Army authorities, mindful of the awful traffic tangle that 8 o'clock would bring, were horrified. Umpires straightway ordered the troops...
...over as and penetrates a lawn 500 yards away; its explosion, fortunately muffled by the soft earth, makes every house in the district reel and shudder. Bombs thud down one after the other. An incendiary bomb smacks onto our roof blinding for a moment and splashing melted metal and flame, but with the aid of a rake it is dislodged and flicked off into the garden to burn itself out; had it been left it would have burnt its way through roof and floor to the basement...