Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California,.Oregon, Washington. Idaho, Nevada and Utah. Flames licked through dry grasses and gutted 24 luxury homes in Hollywood Hills. Destroyed were Author Aldous Huxley's two-story house, his manuscripts and mementos of a lifetime. While firemen restrained the nearly blind British author from running into the blaze. Huxley wept like a child...
...blaze of Alan Shepard's Redstone rocket was a bright light on a dark, cold war horizon. It was a first step in John...
...denuded the landscape of that which gave it beauty; a fire, which leaves one great oak a smouldering heap of common ashes and then disappears underground, slowly to burn its hellish fire through a subterranean network of roots until it bursts forth once again as a great blaze, consuming all and leaving nothing...
Clanging away came New York's fire department, which ordered the electric power shut down on the 5:07's track (but not on the three adjoining tracks). As the fire fighters hosed the blaze, a southbound New Haven train roared up and before the engineer could stop for the flickering red flare, sliced the hoses, which whiplashed crazily around and injured eight firemen. Into the confusion raced fire department officials to begin a lengthy investigation. And all the while, from Grand Central Station and from stations to the north of the accident, came more trains...
Professors, teaching fellows, and lab assistants battled the blaze with a total of ten fire extinguishers until firemen arrived...