Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Forest Service has mustered 11,000 men, nearly 100 planes and some 50 helicopters. But traditional techniques-dropping chemical fire retardants from planes, bulldozing swaths in front of fires, setting back fires, and simply shoveling dirt-have not been sufficient. It is be coming increasingly evident that if a blaze is not detected soon enough, is allowed to spread beyond a few hundred acres and is fanned by high winds, there is little that man can now do to control the flames...
Twice in the same day, the clang of fire bells sounded over the Gulf of Tonkin, and the cry of "Fire! Fire! Fire!" issued from the loudspeaker of the U.S.S. Forrestal, the Navy's third largest aircraft carrier (after the Enterprise and America). Each time the blaze was doused in minutes, but an uneasy calm settled over the 76,000-ton ship. Only the day before, the Forrestal had arrived off the North Vietnamese coast for her first combat duty, and her 4,500-man crew grimly recalled that a fire had killed 44 men aboard the carrier Oriskany...
Only hours before the blaze broke out, the company had marked the midpoint of this summer's season with the U.S. premiere of Paul Hindemith's first full-length opera, Cardillac (1926). The work reflects Hindemith's youthful expressionisms although its intricately polyphonic writing and its theme-the creator v. society-also presage such products of his maturity as the 1938 opera Mathis der Maler. The libretto by Ferdinand Lion is based on an E.T.A...
...another guard and gave him the key to an arms cabinet in the prison office. As he rushed back to his cage, Lovett saw one group of prisoners setting fire to a pile of newspapers and toilet paper that they had stacked under a bunk and another starting a blaze at the opposite end of the building. A large exhaust fan sucked the flames along the ceiling. In seconds, the one-story structure was a furnace...
...Negro had planned the riot, possibly to mask a prison break, possibly just to vent some frustrations. "They really wanted to tear it up," testified one prisoner, but for what reason he could not-or would not-say. Nor could the three ringleaders. All had perished in the blaze...