Word: blazes
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According to Thomas Batchelder, a bystander who saw the blaze, two-inch flames burned the wooden backing of Serendipity’s sign...
...opposite is true. Despite his florid rhetoric, he's well aware that his army cannot stop the Americans and their allies from taking control of most of Iraq. It may be, of course, that Saddam recognizes the inevitability of his doom and plans to go out in a blaze of chemical- and biological- explosions aimed at taking as many of his enemies with him as he can. But his handling of the confrontation until now suggests his goal may instead be to try to slow or stop the U.S. advance by fighting in ways designed to increase political pressure...
Grieving family members of those who perished in the Feb. 18, Taegu, Korea, subway conflagration claim local authorities are bungling the investigation and protecting officials who may not have observed proper safety and rescue procedures during the blaze that killed, at latest count, 197. Police revealed on Feb. 25 that subway authorities edited out several incriminating minutes of taped conversation between a train conductor and the control station before making the tape public. Among the previously deleted portions: An order to the conductor to "kill the car"?to remove the carriage's master key and flee. There was no discussion...
Although the Crimson placed two fencers in the top three of the individual playoff bracket, Princeton claimed the team foil title with a 31-1 record during team competition. The Harvard team of Austin, Stinetorf and co-captain Liz Blaze finished second with a 27-5 mark. Blaze went 7-3 to finish fourth in Pool...
...sent her family's AK-47 assault rifle to be repaired, and fully intends to use it to defend Iraq's capital. As she contemplates deadly gun battles in the streets around her brother's modest two-story home in the middle-class suburb of Bayaa, her leonine eyes blaze fiercely and she throws back her head to thrust out a defiant jaw. "The Americans should be warned that Iraqi women know how to fight and die as well as our men," she says. "We will give up our lives for our beloved country, our beloved Baghdad and our beloved...