Word: torch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noonday, as she lay moored alongside a municipal parking wharf at the foot of Wood Street, a spark flew wild from a welding torch being used to repair a section of loose railing. Within a few seconds, the Island Queen's fuel tanks went up in two explosions so violent that frightened Pittsburghers cried, "Atom bomb!" Fire swept her decks. No passengers were aboard and many of the boat's 96 crew members, concessionaires and musicians were shopping ashore, but the toll was high: 19 dead, 17 injured...
...Nose & Throat Hospital, a surgeon picked up a hot electric needle one day last week and went to work on Mayor David L. Lawrence's left eye. Some of the tissues inside the Mayor's eye were torn. Like a welder with a torch, the surgeon thrust his needle into the back of the eyeball, heated the damaged tissues and joined them together again. The chances were good that the drastic operation would save the Mayor's eyesight...
...Brittany, she created a creepy, spy-laden atmosphere where even secret agents feared to tread. In her latest novel, Friends and Lovers, she has abandoned the thriller for a ladies' magazine romance. Chief attraction: a headstrong Scottish lassie with her heart in the Highlands. She burns the torch for a callow young Oxonian, but its glow is no more than a soulless fluorescence, shedding little light, no heat...
Senator Owen Brewster of Maine is holding high his torch, attempting to illuminate the sex, sin and Scotch with which he claims Howard Hughes and his press agent Johnny Meyer enticed a willing Elliott Roosevelt into handing them a juicy war contract. Pin-up addicts, tabloid readers, and desk bound Washingtonians should be duly grately to the Senator for bringing a spot of joy to dull summer routines. The sex-saturated poses of the scarcely clad "Wham Girl" that have enlivened newspapers and magazines are better than Saturday night at the Old Howard; and Hughes' picture, showing him haggard...
...Vision. On last week's birthday Bolívar's disappointments were forgotten. It was his vision that still counted. The man who began life wealthy, who died at 47 and was laid out in a borrowed nightshirt, wrote an epigram to be carried like a torch: "The liberty of America is the hope of the universe...