Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propulsion was supplied by Groucho's trademarked wit, which tends to ricochet off the commonplace and explode in star shells of mutual misunderstanding. Beginning with a casual question about the contestant's background, Groucho is soon off in a blaze of barbed and ribald non sequiturs. "And do you have any little thieves at home?" he once asked a baseball umpire. Introducing a dealer in war surplus, he inquired solicitously: "How many times have you been indicted?" Learning from a dress designer that women dress for themselves, he observed with a happy leer: "If they dressed...
Fire gutted half the living room of Adams C-5 at a few minutes before 3 a.m. this morning. A cigarette started the blaze in a couch under the Mt. Auburn Street window of the ground-floor corner room...
...idea eventually pays off in a blaze of heroics and dynamite. But not until Kelly has gotten himself out of a picturesque Black Hand cell: a butcher's icebox where piles of homemade bombs nestle among the sides of beef...
...worst fire in Harvard history inspired these lines by an unknown author, as he described a blaze that burned old Harvard Hall to the ground on the night of January...
...policies and practices of the Safety Patrol are calculated to confine any fire within the room in which it starts. The Patrol realizes that an occasional small blaze is inevitable...