Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special election in The Bronx (see Political Notes). A Gallup poll indicated that Wallace was probably strong enough in Chicago to throw all of Illinois to the Republicans. And their own Southern revolt, which had at first seemed like the usual quadrennial fireworks, now looked more like a genuine blaze...
...smoker was probably the cause of the blaze, Deputy Chief Henry Kilfoyle claimed. An unextinguished cigarette "could have lain smoldering several hours" before spreading to some paper...
Cambridge firemen responded to the alarm at 8:50 o'clock, sending three engines and two trucks to the Law School dormitory north of Hemenway Gymnasium. Traffic on Massachusetts Avenue stood still for twenty minutes as engines assembled to fight the blaze and crowds gathered to watch...
...hour later, the ice-shrouded, gutted building had cooled. Inside, firemen found charred bodies, some of them piled near windows, others still in bed. In all, 33 had died. It was the worst fire in Newfoundland since the K. of C. Hostel blaze claimed 100 in 1942. Two years after the Fire Department and City Council had recommended fire escapes for Hull Home, the city began an inquiry to find out why they had never been installed...
Russell K. Height Jr., 28-year-old ex-G.I. who had a brief blaze of glory as a brigadier general of the Moslem raiders in Kashmir (until the U.S. State Department put on the damper), landed back in Denver. British-born Mrs. Haight promptly slipped on the leash: "We're going to raise a family-five or six." Said husband Haight: "I will cooperate...