Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other 17 officers and men got overside into two lowered boats. The men watched the Bold Venture go down. Until almost the last moment, her electric lights continued to blaze. After a wait of only two hours a Canadian corvette had picked them...
...conclusion of the singing of "Fair Harvard" an effigy of a Dartmouth man was torn from his moorings on a nearby tree, to be consumed in a thoroughly satisfactory blaze...
...white hair and beard, eyes frosty blue, voice alternately brusque or urbane, and he walked always in a silvery gray suit the hue of his cigar ashes. Best seen, he was in the orderly disorder of his speckless, spotless study of a Winter's morning, back to a crackling blaze in the white marble fireplace, drinking strong coffee, smoking a long black cigar and laying down the philological law. "Then," said a devotee, "the old man was sublime...
...Honolulu's Schofield Barracks one night last week crept 60-year-old Ushi Makamine. Though he had lived in Honolulu under the U.S. flag, Makamine-san was planning the gesture of a fiery Japanese patriot. He would set the central island of Oahu afire, die himself in a blaze of glory...
Badly burned, Makamine-san was hustled off to a hospital where he died. Before three infantry companies could put it out, his blaze of glory had seared a thousand acres...