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Word: blazes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evidently aided a small fire which had been started in the mattress, probably by a stray cigarette. Miss Schumann and her roommate, Margaret Pfeffer, alerted their proctor who then called the Cambridge fire department. The firemen quickly extinguished the blaze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mattress Fire Puts Two Students From Room During Night | 7/30/1963 | See Source »

...blues for the French court scenes, are utterly sumptuous. And again and again, Seale has grouped his players to form attractive pictures. I have only two complaints here. Herman Chessid's music is too squealy, his fanfares too insipid. And, at the very end of the play--a blaze of glory--it is ridiculous for light-designer Tharon Musser to give us a long slow fadeout instead of a quick blackout...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Henry V Joins Stratford Festival | 7/9/1963 | See Source »

...once introduced on television as "the man known as Mr. Clean." He is so closely identified with the public's good-will-and-good-works vision of the Peace Corps that many people think he created the idea, sold it to the President, then dashed out in a blaze of idealism to make it work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Peace Corps: It Is Almost As Good As Its Intentions | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...Father's Day, which is beginning to edge into equal, if less throat-lumping, status with Mother's Day, came and passed last week in a blaze of angled advertising. The things the stores picked out for special Father's Day promotion (after the usual collection of ties, bathrobes and gold-plated putters) added up to a touching composite picture of the National Daddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Family: Bringing Up Father | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

...after the May 17 TIME had gone to press, but an account was included in most copies: "Thousands of enraged Negroes surged through the streets, flinging bricks, brandishing knives . . . put a torch to a white man's delicatessen, fought off firemen as they arrived to put out the blaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 31, 1963 | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

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