Word: torches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fumbling in a tight spot. Piloting a Super Sabre jet last month in England, Blanchard suddenly found his aircraft on fire. He could have simply hit the silk-but his plane might have plunged into a heavily populated area. Doc Blanchard made his choice, rode his winged torch down to a happy landing. Said an Air Forceman: "One of the finest flying jobs I ever...
...perfect the rediscovered art of bronze casting in the 16th century, he kept the furnace roaring for days and finally set the roof on fire. Now when a fire breaks out in a sculptor's studio, it is more likely to be caused by an unwatched oxyacetylene torch. The material may still be bronze, but there is an added glitter of stainless steel, phosphor or chrome. The great difference is that Cellini produced in bronze a famous Perseus; today's sculptors too often end up with a glittering space divider or macabre wall hanging. Startling and even elegant...
...Torch Carrier. In Eiseldorf, Germany, Farmer's Daughter Agnes Schwimmbeck, questioned about setting fire to her father's barn and farmhouse, confessed that she loved a member of the local volunteer fire brigade, wanted to lure him to the farm...
Chill in the Woods. Joint air-sea-land operations in coordination with Allies were to become standard operating procedure in World War II, but when the Allies landed on North Africa ("Operation Torch") in November 1942, the idea was a formidable novelty to planners. Lemnitzer drew up the plans for Torch. As Supreme Commander Eisenhower's Assistant Chief of Staff (G-3), he showed such a gift for working out the tactical obstacles and logistic snarls of joint operations that he became a sort of permanent, rotating staff officer, got little chance to command his own unit...
...together with "archaism," an aping of the past for the sake of novelty. The death of Hellenism in the fall of the Roman Empire was not caused by a "triumph of religion and barbarism," says Toynbee, taking issue with Gibbon. As Toynbee sees it, Christianity did not put the torch to the classic world; it lit one for it in the sightless dark...