Word: flaming
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Downstairs in the house, Doughty and his wife started toward the stairway, but had to retreat from the gasoline-fired flame already roaring through the hall. They turned quickly to follow their older daughter through a living-room window. Moments later, as Doughty tried to raise a ladder to the second story from the backyard, the walls of the house bulged outward and collapsed into a flaming crackling heap. The storm swirled the sparks and oily black smoke into the freezing night, and counted its death toll: Janet and Tommy Doughty killed in their beds, Pilot Jones, his crew...
Last summer Philippines President Elpidio Quirino viewed with militant alarm the advances of Communism toward Southeast Asia. He called for a "firewall" to seal off the Red flame in China. In an address before Congress he asked the U.S. "not to tarry too long in the redefinition of fundamental attitudes toward Asia...
...down and compressed in the ring-shaped space between the outer shell and the pointed inner section. Some of the compressed air is diverted by a scoop and used to run a turbine and drive the fuel pump. The rest is mixed with fuel and fired by a small flame that burns in the shelter of the conical igniter. The hot gases roar out through a nozzle lined with heat-resistant ceramic. Their reactions propel the machine through space...
...model a complicated system of instruments that measure temperature, pressure, etc. As the ram jet changes speed and altitude the instruments feed in just the amount of fuel needed to keep the engine working at top efficiency. If a sudden change of conditions makes the main flame go out, it is reignited immediately by the small, sheltered flame...
...Revers and his friend, retired General Charles Emmanuel Mast. In the cozy Chez Albert, where France's deputies dine in the shadow of the grimy Palais-Bourbon, hushed conversation turned more & more to I'affaire des généraux. Then the scandal burst into open flame, and Premier Georges Bidault hastily summoned Defense Minister Rene Pleven back from London to attend a special night cabinet session on the matter...