Word: blaze
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They arrived by the dozens to mourn, but not all were wearing black. Among the 200 people who flocked to Mount Carmel, Texas, last Wednesday for a vigil commemorating the second anniversary of the Waco blaze were strutting men bedecked in camouflage. They were members of the North Texas Constitutional Militia, a paramilitary group, and they brought with them a granite stone carved with the names of the victims who died when the Branch Davidian cult went up in flames on April 19, 1993, following a 51-day standoff with the Federal Government. An 11-year-old niece of polygamist...
Clive Doyle is a survivor of the blaze who lost his daughter to the flames and suffered extensive burns himself. "Waco," he says, "is a wake-up call for people in the sense that they saw their government at work against citizens, perhaps for the first time." Doyle has done much to keep the memory of Waco alive. He is the informal leader of the 10 or so sect members who still live near Waco, and he leads the group in religious services every Saturday; some worshippers reportedly expect Koresh to be resurrected. Until that happens, Doyle is the unofficial...
Pfister noted that the tree, a Chinese paper-barked maple, is rare in this area. "It should blaze in the autumn, and thus remind me of Dominic, the much-loved son and special friend," Pfister said...
...mathematician takes note of the blaze, runs into the hallway, finds the cleaning closet, checks that the faucet is operating and the bucket is intact, runs back to the room to re-examine the fire, then says proudly, "Aha! A solution exists...
...alarm, which was pulled on the Science Center's second floor at 11:50 a.m., sounded as students in Statistics 100 and Chemistry 17 struggled to complete exams. Cambridge fire department officials found no evidence of a blaze...