Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...darken skies as far east as Afghanistan and northern India. After 30 days, smoke could cover an area half the size of the U.S. But because oil gushes naturally to the surface in most Kuwaiti wells, with no need of pumping, it will go on feeding a blaze until someone puts it out -- months or years later, depending on how long the war lasts...
...many people, body building is a bizarre pseudo sport: part weight lifting, part boylesque. It stands in that curious crossroads of exhibition and self-flagellation where Narcissus meets the Nautilus. If Schwarzenegger really thought this trail would lead to Hollywood, he would have to blaze it himself. Except for Steve Reeves, the Hercules of cut-rate '60s epics, few body builders had been able to work up so much as a sweat in pictures...
Armed with fire extinguishers, a small group of residents put the fire out before the fire department arrived on the scene, said Imraan Coovadia '92, who helped put out the blaze. There were no injuries, students said...
Larry J. Restieri '90 and Chris S. Bentley '90 are trying to blaze a trail to the top in the music industry--not as executives at Capitol and Columbia, but as guitarist and bass player for The Barley Boys. The Barley Boys are an up-and-coming progressive rock quartet including lead singer Scott Whelehan and drummer Tim Barnes, both of whom graduated last spring, from Dartmouth and Hampden-Sydney...
...extinguished the flames, Lt. Sandy Francis of the Cambridge Fire Department gave orders to have the van impounded and examined by an arson investigator. Officials suspect arson because the fire started in the back seat of the vehicle--far from its engine--and there was no collision before the blaze, Lt. Francis said...