Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fire under the basement steps of Thayer North caused $15 in damages Wednesday night. The Cambridge Fire Department reported that spontaneous combustion of oily rags started the blaze...
Hate & Terror. That was the first sign of trouble stirring in the U.S.'s tiny (3.435 sq. mi), poverty-stricken Caribbean territory-trouble which quickly spread to the steps of President Truman's residence in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Soon violence erupted in a blaze of gunfire all over the island. Seventy Nationalists seized the town of Jayuya, killing four policemen, firing the post office, police station, Selective Service headquarters and 20 homes. In Ponce, Mayaguez, Utuado, half a dozen other towns, Nationalists attacked police stations with small arms and Molotov cocktails...
...syncopated cakewalking craze called ragtime was born just before the turn of the 20th Century and died in the blaze of jazz with World War I. To most jazz fans of today, it sounds like something still on the stalk. To bearded Jazz Pedant Rudi (Shining Trumpets) Blesh and Harriet Janis, it is "music of enduring worth, revolutionary in concept and development." In a rambling, diffuse, but "true story of an American music" published last week under the title They All Played Ragtime (Knopf; $4), Co-Authors Blesh and Janis lovingly tell the tale of "a song that came from...
District Fire Chief Daniel Hagerty stated that the blaze was probably caused by careless disposal of a cigarette...
...blaze, discovered shortly after 1:30 a.m. by night watchman Michael J. Lyons, was confined entirely to the laundry room on the ground floor. Most of the loss was to articles of clothing and towels, some of which were scheduled to be used after today's game with Dartmouth...