Word: torched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wolfish roars as the Russian nobility, ever lovers of traditional customs, pursue nude serfs round and round the banquet hall. But Caroline is resolved at least to keep her head. As Prince Michael bears down upon her, his "greedy and sarcastic gaze" inflamed with "voluptuous contempt," Caroline puts a torch to the hangings. Gusts of fire sweep the room. Amid shouts, pistol shots and clouds of alcoholic smoke, Caroline legs it from the lodge, with Michael in hot pursuit, "howling like a wolf." Too late! Caroline has won again...
...Carry the Torch...
...Economics, and Osmanski's planning, that others began to see its potentialities. After Leach returned from his vacation, he saw clearly that if the program was going to continue, it would need both financial support and a full-time administrative staff. He also needed personnel who could "carry the torch to other schools and light the fire of defense study...
...love for her only daughter. Cold, proud and wildly extravagant, the daughter was a great beauty and Madame de Sévigné married her off to a rich, twice-widowed count. But when her daughter left her side, Madame de Sévigné began carrying a literary torch. Mamma is soon berating the young countess for her recurrent miscarriages and successful pregnancies. The count, of course, is even more blameworthy. "You are reported to have said [regarding] my daughter's confinements . . . that the oftener she does it the better. Dear God! She never does anything else...
...There must be twenty thousand people trapped in there. They'll burn unless we get them out." There are at least 40,000, and the like of the fire that rolls over them has not been seen since David O. Selznick put the Technicolor torch to Atlanta in Gone With the Wind. As the victims race through the streets, they "topple and writhe in agony in the bubbling, flaming tar." But after four days and nights, the city of Harrington has the A-bomb licked...