Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blazes. In Tacoma, an electrical bed-shaking apparatus rigged up by Emmanuel Schrader to wake him at the right time started shaking at the wrong time, went on shaking till it short-circuited, burned the house down. In Dandridge, Tenn., lightning struck Hugh Hunter's cow barn, set it afire, traveled along a pipe to a water tank on a nearby hill, ripped the tank open, let out a stream of water that ran down the hill and put out the fire...
...porch. When son James Love, 21, ran out of the house with a rifle, Clatterbuck disarmed him, shot him in the head, bashed his head with the gunstock for good measure. Then he walked into the kitchen and shot Mrs. Love through the heart, went on out to the barn. There he shot and clubbed the hired man and his wife, left them dead...
...Saturday night in St. Johns. The barn dance was in full swing down in the war-built Knights of Columbus recreation center. About 500 men & women, many of them Canadian sailors, soldiers and flyers, were packed into the wooden...
...disease. She had bubonic plague-the first case reported in the U.S. since last year when two boys in the same county died of the disease (TIME, Sept. 8, 1941). She had probably caught it from ground-squirrel fleas while playing in the hay in her father's barn...
...zenith last week; he had gained more prestige by avoiding the manpower job than Paul McNutt had by taking it. He was no longer a wallflower. A few days earlier, he had written a blistering ten-page letter to the editors of the Washington Star, nailing them to a barn door and skinning them alive for daring to criticize his oil setup. Given a chance to do the letter over last week, he would doubtless have cut it to five pages...