Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make matters worse, this happened after he had sent out circulars the week before instructing everyone to be sure to open their fireplace drafts. Finally the blaze was quelled, leaving a blush on the face of Perkins and a smirk on the face of the Bellboys...
...Home Guard paraded for the last time. Londoners lined three miles of streets to cheer the final march past. The "little man's" army, having waited four and a half years for an enemy who never came, finally "stood down" last week in a blaze of glory and gratitude. From the Home Guard's Colonel in Chief, King George VI, came a solemn tribute: "... A force . . . mighty in courage and determination." Said Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, the man who called the Guard to arms when the Germans were just across the "drink" and likely to come over...
What Is This Thing? In Winfield, Kans., the Fire Department doused an uncontrolled blaze of old love letters, listed it for the record as a "trash fire...
...abler craftsmen (The Big Parade, H.M. Pulham, Esq.) and most earnest innovators (Hallelujah, Our Daily Bread), took fire 18 years ago with the idea of filming a U.S. history in terms of steel. He eventually ignited Louis B. Mayer, too. But the resulting conflagration is a one-alarm blaze, at best...
Campaign by Headline. With no major speech in ten days, and in the face of the furious blaze of war news, Tom Dewey kept in the headlines by skillful use of his press conferences...