Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blaze of bombs, the flash of blades, the eerie glow of fire, the keening cries of hatred, the wild dance of terror in the night-all this was Birmingham, Ala. Birmingham's Negroes had always seemed a docile lot. Downtown at night, they slouched in gloomy huddles beneath street lamps, talking softly or not at all. They knew their place: they were "niggers"' in a Jim Crow town, and they bore their degradation in silence. But last week they smashed that image forever. The scenes in Birmingham were unforgettable. There was the Negro youth, sprawled on his back...
...driver was knifed, his taxi overturned and burned. A policeman was stabbed in the back and a white youngster's arm was slashed from shoulder to elbow. Negroes put a torch to a white man's delicatessen, fought off firemen as they arrived to put out the blaze. Two Negro homes nearby went up in flames, then three more white men's buildings. The rioters, bathed in the flickering orange light of the flames, looted a liquor store and screamed into the night: "White man, we'll kill you!" Miraculously, there were no deaths. But Bull...
Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 said yesterday that he will take no steps to have part of East Cambridge declared a disaster area after a general-alarm five there Easter Sunday, because the blaze had caused "no heavy individual loss...
...linking China with Red-controlled Laos itself. Slowly the Communists have been pinching off supplies to Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le and bribing his officers to defect. Last week, with Kong Le's food and ammunition rations down to the two-day level, the Reds, in a blaze of gunfire, sliced off another chunk of neutralist territory at Xiengkhouang, just south of the plateau...
...choosing not to live in his times, he spent his last years in the sunlit hills of Southern France in a solitary search for the pure sensations of color. And even more than his oils, the hermit master's ventures in the casual medium of watercolor blaze with a natural incandescence that never could be summoned by a light switch...