Word: flamed
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...airport next morning to say goodbye to Jimmy Byrnes and his party. "Why don't you come and visit us in Paris?" asked Senator Tom Connally. "I might do that," joshed the President, and sparked a brisk flame of false rumor...
They stood for a moment not believing their eyes. Fire? In the quiet, respectable, "fireproof" La Salle? A window drapery flared into flame. A fear-crazed crowd burst from the Silver Lounge on the ground floor, jammed through the doors. The brightly lighted lobby, deserted, crackled with fire...
Meanwhile pipemen fought into the flaming lobby with battering streams of water. They edged into the heart of the fire, heads down, coughing, while other firemen in the rear sent protective streams cascading over them. The fire-apparently started by a short circuit in a false ceiling above the Silver Lounge-died) almost as abruptly as it began. In half an hour the blackened, sodden lobby was free of flame...
...During the war I helped bomb the people of Europe. We left cities in flame and people torn and dead. That was war. But what of the children in those cities, and what of the men in the planes which went down? Do I not owe them something? Does not every human being stand condemned for their death...
...flame that still lived in Europe seemed bright enough to survive all gusts. Europe was still quickened by an en during-thought: "Man shall not live by bread alone...