Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PUSS IN BOOTS (28 pp.)-Translated by Marcia Brown-Scribner ($2). A free translation from the French of Charles Perrault makes this classic bubble with mirth while Marcia Brown's illustrations blaze with color...
...answered a call near the Square. It was from the house of a widow with four children, and the kitchen, where the fire had started, was gutted. There was a tremendous hole in the roof, and it had been alternately raining and snowing for days. The firemen brought the blaze under control, nailed a tarpaulin over the hole, cleared away the debris, and before they left, one of them remembered to wish the widow a Merry Christmas...
Damage to the Law School building was estimated at $2,000 by the University Fire Department. The blaze was probably started by a cigarette butt smoldering in a couch, they said. Walls were stripped to the bricks and books ruined as firemen chopped and sprayed to stop the fire...
...fire department and the Buildings and Grounds condemned Big Tree in the spring of 1951. A small wastepaper basket blaze that started during a traditional "after-the-show" party touched off an investigation. The blaze was quickly extinguished, but Buildings and Grounds termed the building's contents "highly inflammable" and recommended that the H.D.C. construct sets somewhere else...
...London recently, a tousled, youngish-looking man stepped into the empty vastness of a 50-passenger R.A.F. Hastings transport specially reserved for him. At Singapore, while the plane lay all night in the blaze of 50 searchlights, troops watched over the tousled man as he slept. A few days later, his plane journey over, the man boarded a Royal Navy frigate at an obscure port in northwest Australia and headed for a rendezvous 50 miles away...