Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yesterday's blaze began at approximately 11:30 a.m. when, according to Cambridge Fire Chief Henry Kilfoyle, a Buildings and Grounds worker who was repairing the Union roof accidentally ignited a portion of it with his blowtorch. The worker immediately went to a Massachusetts Avenue building for help. When he returned minutes later a cordon of three engine companies, two ladder companies, and one rescue company from the Cambridge Fire Department had surrounded the building...
...fire was out, having burned only some outside molding and roof beams at the southwest corner of the building. To get at the smoldering blaze, however, firemen had had to tear away walls, rip through ceilings, and shoot high-pressure water throughout the whole leaky structure. The result was extensive damage to plaster and furnishings on the upper floors and in the western half of the main dining room...
...cause for hysteria by an army of paid propagandists as a means of advancing a policy of avowed political pressure and of stimulating fund raising. Never before has a propaganda campaign in behalf of a foreign government been planned and carried out more blatantly and cynically, in the blaze of limelight and to the fanfare of publicity, than the present wave of hysteria now being worked up among American Jews...
Runners who blaze through the mile in under 4:40 coupled with real team depth account for the Yardling harriers' phenomenal record, the best amassed by McCurdy's aggregation in many a year. Their highest score--which means the poorest in cross country--was 29 points in the triangular with Penn and Columbia two weeks...
...Kansas City's sprawling Municipal Auditorium one night last week, 10,000 blue-jacketed youths sat tense and quiet as an announcement was made from the stage. Then, as they came to their feet in a blaze of applause, a 119-piece band blared a fanfare, and a dozen spotlights lanced through the darkened arena to center on a wiry, suddenly pale young man who stood awkwardly rubbing the sweat from his palms. Joe Moore, who runs a farm near Liberty, about halfway between the communities of Accident and Nameless in Tennessee's Cumberland foothills, had just been...