Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pieces of fire apparatus were called late last night to a small incinerator fire on the roof of an office building across from Straus Hall. The blaze caused no damage...
...exploitation of Quo Vadis, M-G-M last week brought its managers from 37 countries to Rome. But since no mere managers' meeting could possibly spark the proper promotional fire, M-G-M put on a $100,000 show called "Colossal Quo Vadis Conference" that nearly rivaled the blaze of the $6,500,000 picture itself...
...movie is not great art, but it is great fun. Essentially it is one long, exciting, old-fashioned movie chase. Filmed in the Belgian Congo and Uganda by Director John Huston, it tells its adventure yarn in a blaze of Technicolor, fine wild scenery and action. While hippos gambol in the shallows and crocodiles gape evilly from mudbanks, Bogart and Hepburn fight each other, the elements and the Germans. They are shot at by natives, drenched by torrential downpours, devoured by mosquitoes and blood-sucking leeches, felled by malarial fevers. They triumph over heat, hardship and heartbreak only...
Next morning, followed at a discreet distance by her husband Philip, the Queen walked along the garden path linking Clarence House with St. James's Palace, to receive the homage of her Privy Council and sign the oath of accession. An hour later, in a blaze of medieval pomp, her accession was formally proclaimed. Crowds of thousands jammed Pall Mall, St. James's Street, Friary Road and The Mall. Four state trumpeters, resplendent in gold-laced tabards, stepped out on a balcony of St. James's Palace, followed by sergeants-at-arms bearing maces. In the courtyard...
While British property and security disappeared in the flames of Egyptian nationalism last week (see above), alarm bells rang out for an ominous blaze in French territory 800 miles to the west. Militant nationalism, smoldering in the protectorate of Tunisia for some 50 of France's 71 years of sovereignty, had burst suddenly into open flame. Over the years, France had granted Tunisians more & more voice in their internal affairs in an effort to stave off Tunisian demands for independence. Over the years, Tunisia's nationalists, led by a dynamic yet reasonable and sternly anti-Communist Arab named...