Word: wickedly
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...Franzmann, professor of New Testament interpretation at the Missouri Synod's Concordia Seminary, warned against closing the door entirely to joint praying: "May we not, by too facile and too simple a ruling concerning joint prayer, become guilty of crushing the bruised reed and quenching the smoldering wick, by making the names 'Confessional' and 'Orthodox' names which smell of lovelessness...
...tigers' hunger. The story is told consecutively in a single picture, as in the case of some modern comic strips and many early Renaissance paintings. With Buddhist confidence in reincarnation on a higher plane, the youth gives himself up as simply as a candle flame pinched from its wick. He lies peacefully under the tigers' tearing fangs. The whole dark and wild episode is painted with the utmost delicacy, even serenity. It looks like the imaginary scenes that small boys find among the ashes of dying fires...
...Ledbury Road, hoodlums worked systematically down the street hurling bricks and milk bottles at every house where Negroes lived. When they reached a Negro bar called the Calypso Club, three Molotov cocktails (bottles filled with gasoline ignited by a wick) were hurled out at the crowd. "Kill the bloody spades!" shrieked a 15-year-old Teddy boy. Others took up the cry-but it changed to "Kill the bloody coppers!" as truncheon-flailing police surged into the mob. Dozens were arrested and police stations stacked up piles of bicycle chains and tire irons, flick knives and nail-studded belts taken...
...material that can be used in lieu of firebrick in lining furnace stacks or pipes subject to corrosion was announced by Pittsburgh Corning Corp. Expected to have wide use in the aeronautical field and also in nuclear energy installations (where its nonabsorptive nature keeps it from acting as a wick), Foamsil may also turn up as insulation in home electric appliances. Cost...
...Turn the flame low before blowing - to preserve the wick and keep the chimney clean...