Word: arsons
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Revolt, Murder, Looting, Arson...
From this pitch of lyric arson, Cyprus' revolt inevitably calmed down as armed Britons rushed to Storr's aid. It took a troop of Royal Welch Fusiliers all night to bump 50 miles over awful roads from their encampment on Mount-Troodos. But soon after dawn their mud-spattered trucks snorted into Nicosia and the mob was cowed...
Towers, temples, arches, hospitals, and heaven knows what else, were suggested. Remembering the intention of arson with which the contemplation of Memorial Hall, finished in the early '70s, inspired Charles Eliot Norton, it was natural that many Cantabrigians should be doubtful and willing to wait. The exceptionally bleak, forbidding, and almost illegal ugliness of Appleton Chapel, where there are prayers and Sunday services for such as choose to go to them, must have guided the discussions toward the substitution of a humane Georgian building sympathetic with the older and the newer architecture--except the unforgivingly alien Widener Library. Appleton Chapel...
...Tomlinson has never been accused of arson, no London bobby has ever arrested him for setting the Thames on fire. A solid citizen in literature's republic, he is known, liked, admired by other solid citizens. Primarily an essayist, a ponderer, his earnest musings appeal to lovers of quiet English and of quiet English sense (which has in it a touch of the lyrical, a dash of the salty). This book of essays and sketches should cause no fluctuation in Tomlinsons, which should remain steady, safe...
...denounced Agent Bonynge's charges of wholesale German arson and sabotage as "based on flimsy circumstantial evidence." He explained ingeniously what happened to Secret Agent von Rintelen and his $500,000 of alleged sabotage money...