Word: torchings
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...great bed had broken beneath the weight of its energetic occupants. Felicity now snatched up a thick splinter of wood and thrust it into the fireplace. Holding her torch aloft, she sprang upon Zalathal’s back. For a moment she hesitated, looking around her at Roxanna’s chamber. It had to burn. Almost delicately, she touched the flaming tip of the torch to the vanity table. The wood curled slowly away and then burst into flames. Felicity dug her heels into the stallion’s flanks...
...onward they sped, through the wide French doors and into the darkened hallway that was already filling with smoke. Felicity wielded the torch like a broadsword, swung it left and right. Slowly the dark house came alight with fire. She paused at the top of the great staircase. In the gray din below, she thought she saw a thread of golden hair. It disappeared, and then she saw her imbecile of a husband running in the same direction. He must not reach Roxanna! Felicity hurled the burning torch down the stairs at Frederick’s feet. Frederick shrieked...
...electricity, the power that went through my body, said, ‘Go forth. Go make a change.’ Obama passed the torch to me,” he says...
...would work best if I had to face a fire. Some time later I went back to the peephole and couldn't see anything. The smoke was unbelievably thick. I thought now I was in serious trouble, and got ready to escape. I took the door key and a torch, and got down on my hands and knees, and went out. When I saw the [flickering] light [from] the door, I figured if the lights went out I wouldn't be able to get back into my room. So I put a wet towel in the door, and tried...
...Rudy: Organize This! Joe Klein's "Passing the Torch" was a tonic for me [Nov. 17]. During the Republican National Convention, when Rudy Giuliani sneered that he didn't even know what a community organizer is and Sarah Palin - with sarcasm that made my skin crawl - remarked that she guessed that a "small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities," the insult was personal and deep. For the first time in my life, I donated financially to a political campaign - Obama's. My mother, a beloved longtime community organizer, has been gone...