Word: white-hot
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Opening blow was a tremendous shower of incendiaries: 40,000 thermite bombs from a single flight of bombers. Their white-hot showers reddened into smoky flames as they fired buildings. From then on, the other flights had a lighted target to shoot at. They squared away, dumped their sticks of demolition bombs, and ran for home...
...really white-hot question: How many non-violent non-cooperators would appear if India were invaded...
...result is the Air Force which so far has had its way in the southwest Pacific. It is not the Air Force of the brutal, aimless, bootless raids of Chungking. It has been as smooth as a team of riveters tossing white-hot rivets into tiny buckets, or driving them cleanly home. In Malaya this Air Force confused and broke the British, made their calm confidence look like childish complacency...
...yards from the sector where most of them fell, and made his color shots. They are infinitely more frightening than a black-&-white bombing. The camera pans from the neat Japanese formations of 36 planes in threes in the blue sky to the crimson splash of bursting bombs, the lavender and purple clouds of smoke and debris, the dun-colored houses standing above the muddy river, to the bodies burned black in the white-hot ashes of demolished dwellings. Only thing missing is the red flash of anti-aircraft guns. Of these, Chungking had pitifully...
...chemical extinguisher which puts out burning magnesium, chief ingredient of incendiary bombs. Hitherto magnesium incendiaries have had to be smothered under buckets or sand heaps (water and common extinguishers only make them burn better). The new chemical, a secret of Pyrene Manufacturing Co., blankets the white-hot magnesium with dense, inert gases. Demonstrated last week before witnesses from the U.S. Army Air Corps, it may be of great value in Britain...