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Word: blazes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON article observed later. "Mr. Dillon's offer comes at most felicitous time, for the blaze threw the University's athletic facilities into a critical situation...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Athletic Managers Help Organize Teams By Performing Administrative Duties, Gain Valuable Experience for Future | 11/12/1960 | See Source »

...statement on Kennedy's behalf: "Senator Kennedy considers it wholly improper and alien to our democratic system for churchmen of any faith to tell the members of their church for whom to vote or for whom not to vote." Thus, once more Candidate Kennedy had helped blaze a trail for American Catholics in their evolving effort (TIME, Oct. 10) to get the church-state relationship in a democracy clarified once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fuss in Puerto Rico | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

Fireflooding. New methods may produce even better results. One new meth od, called fireflooding, uses an electric coil in a well shaft to ignite the oil. Air is then pumped in to fan the blaze. The moving wall of fire thins the oil so that it flows ahead of the blaze to another well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Texas Makes Up Its Mind | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

Unlike coal-mine fires, an underground oil blaze does not seep through to the surface, can be extinguished by cutting off the air supply. In a field near Palestine, Texas, when waterflooding failed, fire was used. Production in one well alone jumped from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Texas Makes Up Its Mind | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...Allen; 20th Century-Fox) exhibits Claude Rains in a red fright-wig, and Jill St. John in-just barely-a pair of pink slacks. These wonders notwithstanding, the most intriguing performers, as is only proper in a Good-Lord-Professor-Can-It-Be? film, are several dinosaurs. Their eyes blaze, their mattress-sized tongues flick menacingly, and their lank green hides glisten in squamous grandeur. They thrash about like lovers in a French art film, roar like convention orators and, when they are hungry, give new depth and meaning to scenery chewing. When two of them duel, Fairbanks-fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 18, 1960 | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

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