Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Five-year-old Bobby Lemmon of San Antonio, Texas watched a TV horse opera with growing excitement, then ran to get his dad's .22 rifle, came back to blaze away at the screen. Standing over the family's shattered TV set, he calmly explained: "Shucks, the good guy needed some help...
...news spread fast. In the high-school gymnasium, the loudspeaker broke urgently through the cheers of the basketball fans: "Dr. Barnett, please report to the New Orient mine." Within minutes, the gym was emptying and scores of automobiles were heading past West Frankfort's bright blaze of Christmas lights to Illinois Highway 37 and the turnoff to the mine...
...neither the inclination nor the techniques for achieving a pictorial illusion of space. And, seen close-to, the drawing is childishly crude. The figures are as bodiless as shadows stopped upon a screen; they gesture with puppetlike stiffness. For all that, they look wonderfully alive, shining through the blaze of color like prophets in a fiery furnace...
...story window, however, strong fumes forced a retreat. By the time gas masks arrived, an instructor had informed the firemen that it would be safe to use water. Meanwhile the fire had been left to burn merrily for over an hour, and five more trucks arrived to fight the blaze. After a brief bombardment of flying glass from disintegrating chemical bottles, firemen finally subdued the flames. Only the stone construction and internal brick partitions prevented total destruction...
...then sat back to watch the sport from his picture window. Oscar was noticed by more than 100 passing hunters. Only two of them asked Farmer Marlow's permission to take a shot at him. The others generally brought their cars to screeching stops and leaped out to blaze away at the stuffed bird. After one hunter nearly shot his companion in his haste to get the bird, Mrs. Marlow made her husband bring Oscar back into the house...