Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hurry. In Gig Harbor, Wash., firemen roared to a small blaze, scrambled off the truck, attached the hose-one end to one hydrant, the other to another. While they struggled to get things straight, a bystander put the fire...
...only the Yard's early strollers who could shout "Let it burn," since this second visit of the year by the local fire brigade came well before 9 o'clock. A short circuit in a fuse box had caused only a small blaze, but the smoke, which was heavy enough to fill the basement, prompted a janitor to call out the fire fighters...
...India the heat was creeping north from Cape Comorin, the heat which would grow to a relentless blaze scorching the country until the June monsoon. Much-traveled General Sir Archibald Wavell, back in New Delhi to resume his Indian command (see p. 19), waited in the heat for London to make up its mind. A U.S. air mission had arrived, the first tangible sign that U.S. fighters might join in India's defense. They too waited for London's words. And in New Delhi the Viceroy, who rules India for Britain, also waited...
Only emergency to occur during the drill happened when fire broke out in the Boston Elevated yards at Memorial Drive and Boylston Street. Defense workers and fire fighters sped to the blaze and were able to extinguish it auxiliary fireman turned in the alarm, auxiliary firemen turned in the alarm, and those fire engines who were detailed to take care of the "incident" used specially made "blackout lights" while going to and from the yards...
...which the translator insipidly renders into Promise of Dawn). The young politician Jerphanion compares the magnetism of the Soviets with that of Verdun six years before: "There is something in it of that same sense of a distant melting pot, of a light shining through the darkness-a great blaze of light. ... It may be the dawn; it may be a conflagration. But whether we believe it to be one or the other, we are all agog to get there...