Word: blazed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deft indirection, Winston Churchill touched on the U.S. election campaign. He remarked that the conference was called at his insistence, indicated that others should and would be held. The meeting, he added, was held in "a blaze of friendship...
...great repertory theaters of the world, was blitzed to atoms. But London was not to be robbed by a bomb of a tradition it cherished, or of the classics it loved. Fortnight ago, in St. Martin's Lane, a reborn Old Vic opened in a blaze of glory, and helped a theater slump, brought on by the robombs, to turn back into a boom...
...Seventh Army in Provence with the forces before Paris. It might be dropped beyond Paris to slash the German escape route-or be set down in Germany beyond the Belfort Gap to speed an advance into Germany at the Swiss-border hinge of the Siegfried Line-or used to blaze the advance of the combined Allied Armies on north Germany along the coastal plane-the route by which Germany had invaded France twice in this century...
Tactical airmen, whose task is to blaze the way for troops on the ground, knew by now that they had done a job which would be a textbook model for all time. This pleased none of them more than their commander, big, brisk, breezy Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, R.A.F. For three years Air Marshal Coningham had set the pace for the trade...
...State's Attorney and the chief of State Police asked the questions which were on thousands of other lips. How did the fire start? Eyewitnesses swore the blaze first smouldered at the bottom of the tent near a canvas section raised as a men's restroom. Why did the tent burn with that celluloid fierceness? Circus men said the 19-ton big top had been sprayed with a waterproofing solution last April. It had not been inspected before the show by the Hartford fire marshal...