Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quick action on the part of two Winthrop House residents and a tutor prevented a blaze in J-35 from possibly gutting a whole floor last Saturday night...
...morning last week, a U.S. Marine captain stared down the frozen clay road to Panmunjom. He could make out a distant blaze of standards, the glint of their points in the winter sun. "Here they come," the captain's squad muttered, as the tramp of marching feet grew loud. "All right," the captain said. "Everybody get back and keep this road clear. These guys have been waiting a long time for this...
Firemen arrived quickly, smashed the outside of the windows, and then extinguished the blaze by extending hoses through the newsroom into the photo office...
...touched off by an afternoon water fight between the third and fourth floor occupants of Hollis North, flared again Sunday night as a sheet of flame rose high into the air in front of University Hall. Unknown persons poured gasoline on the ground and ignited it to kindle the blaze...
...knew what it was talking about. Unheeded by other papers or by state officials, Newsday had been loudly hammering away for more than three years at corruption at the Long Island track in Nassau County. Last week Newsday's three-year-long campaign finally paid off with a blaze of Page One stories in the Manhattan dailies on one of the biggest state scandals in years. As a result, ten Roosevelt track and union officials were indicted for "extortion," and Governor Thomas E. Dewey named a special state committee to investigate corruption in harness racing...