Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial. The spotlight had wavered for weeks between the Government's backslid-Red witnesses and Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan, whose apoplectic conduct had brought him a six-month sentence (which was deferred) for contempt of court. But last week Harry Bridges finally had the full blaze of the limelight all to himself...
Members of the Pi Eta Club successfully fought a mysterious blaze that broke out in the clubhouse basement last night. Damage was negligible due to the quick action of the club members who had the blaze under control before the Cambridge Fire Department reached the scene. No cause of the blaze was disclosed...
...fire yesterday virtually destroyed Princeton University's $400,000 cyclotron. The cause of the blaze, which gutted nearly all of the 18,000,000 volt machine, could not be determined...
Yesterday's fire was described by an observer as being "slow, stubborn, and smoky." It begin at approximately 1 p.m. yesterday afternoon and was still smouldering 11 hours later. Over 1,000 gallons of soy bean foam were poured into the blaze...
Fire fighters stood in the intense cold outside the looked Eliot courtyard gate, blocking Memorial Drive traffic for 15 minutes before they learned that the one alarm fire had been extinguished. The blaze did no damage, and no one knew how it began...