Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glorious Blaze. The Wobbly martyrs had a flair for last words. Convicted on debatable evidence of the murder...
...death. Before he faced a firing squad, he wired Big Bill Haywood: "Don't waste time mourning. Organize!" Frank Little, "half Indian, half white and all I.W.W.," was lynched by masked men in Butte, Montana, but not before he had said: "Better to go out in a blaze of glory than to give in." When a mob of war veterans stormed I.W.W. head quarters in Centralia, Wash., Wesley Everest was cornered and caught. He sneered: "You haven't got the guts to hang a man in the daytime." He was right: the mob came back that night, snatched...
Gulping air, the Senator then dashed to the phone to summon firemen, who found him safe but sooty. The $1,000 blaze was caused, firemen guessed, by a smoldering cigarette-left over from an earlier smoke-filled session between Tower and Texas Republican cronies...
...week's end 61 bodies had been recovered, many burned beyond identification. But the toll could reach more than 300, since 250 were still missing. It was, by any count, Brussels' worst fire and the most devastating one worldwide since 323 persons perished in a circus blaze in Brazil in 1961. Brussels Mayor Lucien Cooremans said that it would take a month or so to comb through the tangled debris, which still smoldered days later. Store officials estimated the property loss at $23 million...
...bitter brown haze. Smog shrouded Miami, and acrid smoke choked much of the rest of southern Florida. The magnificent Everglades National Park-the timeless, endless "river of grass"-was drying up like a farmer's mudhole in August, and the smallest spark quickly turned into a blaze...