Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since its completion in 1901, the boat house has suffered from fires nearly every year. In 1925 a mysterious fire started in the lounge upstairs open only to varsity crew members. Firemen claimed that the blaze was started by a cigarette, but the coaches naturally refused to believe that any crew member would smoke, especially in sacred territory. They maintained that a nest-building bird flew in with the lighted Lucky...
...Lider's bidding armed mainly with cans of gasoline. Gaily yelling "Perón! Perón!'', they broke into the empty headquarters of the Socialist Party and set it afire. Spectators, among them Police Chief Miguel Gamboa, gathered to watch the blaze. The arsonists, now a hundred strong, moved on to Radical Party offices and set them ablaze...
...should lock those guys in their rooms after every practice," said the fiery coach upon hearing of the loss of two starters. Monk Aiello, diminutive attackman, was burned in a freak blaze Saturday, and defense stalwart Ed Sexton was hurt in a weekend auto accident. Other starters Jim Telfer and Pete Palches are still on the inactive list because of vacation injuries...
...They were asleep in their huts as the silent Mau Mau warriors moved in for the kill. The first wave of attackers barred each hut door, the next, carrying torches, set fire to the grass roofs. Then, as the terrified villagers came stumbling out of the blaze, the executioners went to work with long sharp knives...
...protests pour in, the police present a series of rationalizations in answer. They carp on the old favorites of parked cars impeding snow clearance and blocking fire engines on the way to a night-time blaze. Now that snow has migrated north, the study fire engines must bear the bulk of the rather shaky argument. During the day the Fire Department has to battle through streets cluttered with parked and moving cars, and seems to fare pretty well. There is no reason why they could not do even better at night, when there are few drivers about...