Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Advocate editors quickly emptied their beer mugs this weekend, searched hurriedly for the nearest water outlet, and proceeded to beat the Cambridge Fire Department to the punch as they doused an incipient blaze glowering below on a Gold Coast Valeteria awning. Fifty onlookers applauded as the professional firecaters shifted into reverse and drove quietly away...
...were in his old vein: New Yorkerish jibes at solemn nuns, nightclubbers & dilettantes. But most gallerygoers preferred his Minnesota farmyards and Colorado mountain landscapes. In them, Dehn proved once again that he knows how to give black the coolness and weight of real shadows, and how to make white blaze and sparkle the way light does...
...Campus Academic, Social, Cultural, and Physical Conditions) could well step in at once where small colleges abound and initiate cooperative regional planning for lecture and concert attractions which otherwise would never venture into the grass-roots. Commission II (Student Publications and Student Government) will, in a sense, trail-blaze for NSO itself when it seeks to formulate ways for rendering student governments functional rather than merely honorifle. Commission III (Educational Opportunities and Discrimination) might adopt the suggestion for a national employment counseling service to beat the "closed shop" dilemma confronting many men and women of minority race or religion...
...first clang of the fire alarm, the Duke of Windsor flung out of his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers and up two flights to Baron Egmont van Zuylen van Nuyvelt's apartment. The Baron & friends, in a hot game of gin rummy, had overlooked a blaze in the bedroom. The visiting fireman (in dinner jacket, black tie) fell to "with a will for five minutes," it was reported, helped hotel employees drag a hose to the conflagration. Too late: the Baroness' $2,000 mink was just a pile of singed hair...
...operations manager; Harold Crary, a onetime newspaperman who handles United's advertising, publicity and traffic; Hal E. Nourse, who runs the economics planning section; and Ray Ireland, ex-colonel and deputy chief of staff of the Air Transport Command (he gave Elliott Roosevelt's dog, Blaze, his ill-famed plane ride). Ireland makes the policy decisions when Patterson is not available...