Word: blazes
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...