Ripley recalled, "It was only my second job, and I took it all very seriously, in my Greek sarong and my torch of fire, having to burble in tongues".
It is another matter whether the American effort can succeed: Whether President Bush will be able to make Iraq a torch of democracy capable of lighting a fire among the autocracies and dictatorships of the Arab world, or will end up resembling Woodrow Wilson with his belief that the League of Nations would make the world safe for Jeffersonian values after World War I.
The show ends when Mr. Moschen rotates two torches in a circle of fire, the flames as vivid as a Chinese ribbon dance, and then extinguishes them by shutting them into a black box.
Pockets of tall trees occasionally go up in a flash of fire, torching like matchsticks, sending dark black and grey chimneys of smoke floating above the ridge.
When you run out, add the fire and make more torches, then retrieve the fire by replacing it with a torch and putting the fire back into your inventory.
In 2011, a procession of torch carriers including the Up Helly Aa' Vikings from Shetland is also planned, making a river of fire flowing up Calton Hill.
If we fire three times in the air, or flash a torch in bursts of three, they send a Talib soldier across to find out what we want.
As Ahmad emerged with a torch, a shot was fired, narrowly missing his son.
Strict orders forbade the lighting of hall torches and prohibited anyone from entering the hall with a torch during the performance, to minimize the risk of the highly flammable costumes catching fire.
Last month, a plumber's torch sent fire racing through six floors of an old apartment building in southwest Yonkers, forcing several families from their homes.
He was shining a torch on a white flag when the IDF opened fire.
