Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite a skillful pilot, 23 die in a jetliner blaze...
Despite the crew's best efforts, 23 passengers, some of them still in their seats, were found dead after the blaze was extinguished by 19 pieces of fire equipment surrounding the plane. It was the first loss of life in a commercial airline accident since Jan. 11, when three crew members of a United Airlines cargo jet were killed when it crashed into a swamp near Detroit just after takeoff. Among those who perished were Curtis Mathes Jr., 54, chairman of Curtis Mathes Corp., a Dallas television manufacturing firm, and Canadian Folk Singer Stan Rogers...
From the start of the week to the start of the race, this was the Marfa Derby. The brightest debate and sharpest humor centered on a reckless rogue from California. Handsome and as gray as half past 7 o'clock with a splash of white blaze on his forehead, he went off as a 2-1 favorite. For racing sideways at times, Marfa inspired the nickname of "the Mugger." Even in the post parade leading up to a race, the pony escort is not safe alongside, and neither is the pony girl holding Marfa's bridle. The brute...
...costumes, and even the acting techniques reflect this odd mixture of creative genius and worn-out cliche. The set itself is a three ring circus, a blaze of colors and graffiti. On one impressive wall a black-on-white silhouette of what appear to be jazz musicians and dancers on a ghetto street, the figures appear to laugh and then howl in anguish as the light changes. But another wall, a mural of floating patio furniture and suburban houses, is more than a bit obvious--it suggests a rip-off of the Rolling Stones' "Still Life" album cover. A third...
...fire was the second in a Harvard dorm room in four months. Following a small blaze in Adams House in January, a University official said there had not been a fire is a dorm of administrative building in five years...