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Word: flaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...soul of man is a flame, a bird of fire that leaps from bough to bough, from head to head, and that shouts: T cannot stand still. I cannot be consumed, no one can quench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odyssey of Faith | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...Boyhood. One of his heroes is flame-bearded Uncle Barbarossa, a dynamiter by trade who in off-hours spouts revolutionary speeches at his aged beagle Garibaldi. When the time comes for the ailing dog to be destroyed. Uncle Barbarossa is determined that "General Gari baldi shall not die a bourgeois death" but exit gloriously in an explosive blast. He corsets the dog with two sticks of dynamite, buries him in a snowbank and lights the fuses. But faithful Garibaldi lopes after his master, and half of West Hoboken scrambles for dear life. The animal goes out with a bang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paesano with a Trowel | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...Flame over India. An ingenious scriptwriter tricks out a trek through the rebellious India of 1905 with such assorted jaws of death, nicks of time, and ours-not-to-reason-why that the eastern may become as popular as the western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 30, 1960 | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

...such subterfuges would probably not have satisfied critics or kept Khrushchev from making whatever use he wanted of the incident. And for all Khrushchev's claims, the U.S. was convinced that an oxygen-system failure or an en gine "flame-out" had forced Pilot Powers down within rocket range, and, most importantly, that the Soviets still do not have an antiaircraft rocket capable of reaching the U2's operating altitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Tracked Toward Trouble | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...Flame Over India. An ingenious scriptwriter tricks out a trek through the rebellious India of 1905 with such assorted jaws of death, nicks of time, and ours-not-to-reason-why, that the eastern may become as popular as the western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

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