Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jersey blaze spotlights growing problem of chemical waste...
After the indictments, a fire gutted the Fort Lauderdale showroom of Bond Plumbing Supply, the firm whose office manager had blown the whistle on the operation. Fort Lauderdale Fire Captain Stanley Janson said that the blaze was set by arsonists...
...crisis, Chicago was helped by other factors. The relatively mild winter weather reduced the number of fires caused by temporary heating arrangements. Arsonists were reluctant to start a fire, police theorize, because under the circumstances any blaze of suspicious origins would attract unusually close scrutiny...
Helicopter gunships blaze away at elusive guerrillas. The army of a superpower tries to shore up an allied regime against an insurgency, but the puppet government and its military forces only grow weaker. The rebellion spreads. What was intended as a swift surgical operation begins to resemble a futile, possibly humiliating war without...
...country was on the verge of collapse, as Viet Nam was in 1965. Just as the U.S. did with South Viet Nam's forces, the Soviets inherited a demoralized, poorly trained, desertion-prone Afghan army that has no stomach or heart for fighting the Muslim insurgent Helicopter gunships blaze away at elusive guerrillas. The army of a superpower tries to shore up an allied regime against an insurgency, but the puppet government and its military forces only grow weaker. The rebellion spreads. What was intended as a swift surgical operation begins to resemble a futile, possibly humiliating war without...