Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London's Little Peace Conference wound up in a festive blaze of cocktail and dinner parties. Preparations for the imminent Big Peace Conference began with a less festive scrubbing and whitewashing in Moscow's Moskva and Metropole Hotels. But the prospects for the meeting on which all of Europe's peace depends were not bright. The report to the Foreign Ministers, which the deputies turned in after a spell of predeadline frenzy, was largely a list of deadlocks...
Revived, Mrs. Chimes broke up two small orange crates (cruelly labeled "Sunkist") and kindled a puny blaze in her stove. She went to the icy window, peered down the street in the hope of a glimpse of her husband. Unemployed now, he had gone out ahead of her to queue up at the greengrocer's for a few potatoes. Mrs. Chimes turned to her tiny kitchen and a pile of clothes awaiting washing. She sighed...
Shanghai's realistic firemen, who seldom risk confronting a spreading blaze but prefer to douse burned-out wreckage in its wake, last week proved as sensitive as they are sensible. In consequence of repeated (though unsubstantiated) charges that they demanded goldbar bribes to answer a New Year's Day call, the city's 514 fire fighters resigned in a body...
...allowed to take the message, the voice at the other end snapped indignantly: "Yes, I'll give you the message. This is the Times-Herald, and when the General wakes up you can tell him the War Department is on fire" (it was, but just a small blaze...
Harlow Shapley's scheduled appearance before the house Committee on Un-American Activities ended yesterday in a blaze of accusations and counter-accusations as Shapley charged Representative John E. Rankin (D-Miss.), who sat as a one-ma committee to hear him as a witness, of "Gestapo." tactics and Rankin countered by announcing contempt action against the well-known scientist...