Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening its season in a blaze of ignominy, the Mill Street Field hockey team yesterday lost a 2 to 1 decision to a strong Annex eleven in a game played in the 'Cliffe quadrangle...
Because his own-bred yearling crop was long on fillies, George D. Widener went looking for a colt at the 1949 Saratoga summer sales. The one that took his eye was a blaze-faced chestnut in the Jonabell consignment. Although the colt looked like a good buy at the modest $4,500 which Widener bid him in for, he failed to show top stakes quality in early training. So Widener packed him off to Florida, to let him find his own level at Hialeah's winter meeting...
...stocky man of middle height with plentiful white hair and an air of semi-polite skepticism. But he can also blaze with indignation and laugh like a kid-all within a few minutes. In the presence of his gentle-voiced, humorous wife, he smiles like a man who is happy. His interests are more versatile than those of many scientists: he has been known to sit for half an hour beside a rock surrounded by rising water just to see what a dozen ants will do when their refuge is submerged...
Seventh Day Adventism is a flame that caught during the great blaze of evangelism which swept through the U.S. in the middle of the last century. To many of the "saved," the prophetic passages of the Bible took on a new importance, and here & there the conviction sprang up that the time for Christ's return was close at hand. The Seventh Day Adventists, so-called because they celebrated the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday), set no date for the second coming, and they avoided a set creed. But Adventists adhere to a strict code: no unnecessary work on the Sabbath...
...facts," of "twisting, coloring, perverting and distorting" the truth, of a "campaign of vilification against this committee probably unparalleled in the history of congressional investigations." "Starting with nothing," it stated, "Senator McCarthy plunged headlong forward, desperately seeking to develop some information which, colored with distortion and fanned by a blaze of bias, would forestall a day of reckoning...