Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strangers on a Train (Warner), Alfred Hitchcock's latest thriller, winds up with a scene in which a merry-go-round goes wild, spins like a pin wheel, and crashes in a gaudy blaze of explosions that no earthly carrousel could touch off. The movie itself is the same way: implausible but intriguing and great fun to ride...
Although the smoke never turned into a blaze, the crowd, mostly composed of graduate students, saw at least some action...
Firemen raised a ladder against the kitchen wall, climbed up with axes and fire extinguishers, entered through the roof, and then quickly extinguished the blaze...
...inconsistent, perhaps it may be clarified by comparing it with a fire chief who sends firemen to House A, which is not on fire, while denying a fire hose to the firemen fighting the fire at House B. The theory being that the fire hose will cause the blaze at House B to get bigger...
...yesterday a man's voice notified the fire department of a blaze in George's Bar in northern Cambridge. Fire trucks rushed to the scene, but there was no fire. The telephone company traced the call to the pay phone on the second floor of Moors Hall...