Word: blazes
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FIDDLE FOLK The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, vital forces in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk-music scene, blaze a trail for Irish music in America and inspire a number of other singers, including Bob Dylan and Barbra Streisand...
...planes were loaded with fuel for transcontinental flights, and that jet fuel ignited a hellish blaze that sent temperatures at the point of impact soaring to an estimated 2000 degrees F. Within an hour, the intense heat caused the seemingly invincible steel beams of the towers to melt like cotton candy. At 10 a.m. EST, the southern tower of the World Trade Center was enveloped in smoke after a second, gigantic explosion, and part of that tower collapsed and was destroyed. About twenty minutes later, the northern tower imploded. At 5 p.m. EST, weakened by the impact and heat...
During Rowe’s tenure it was revealed that Harvard had secretly purchased acres of land across the river in Allston. “Grogan came in with the mandate to blaze the trail in Allston,” Rowe said...
When the darkness swallowed her husband, all Zhang Jiaqin saw was a wisp of black smoke emanating from the ground. It could have been a harvest blaze or the remnants of a cooking fire. But as she stood in the cornfields of this hardscrabble corner of southwest China, Zhang knew better. Like a fisherman's wife who scans the seas when the weather turns turbulent, a coal miner's spouse recognizes the fatal signs: a thread of smoke, a muffled boom and then a rush of blackness flowing from the charred earth. "I knew he had died the moment...
...local mosque. The Palestinian Authority took control of 80 percent of the city in 1997, although a small settler presence remained in the center of town. Thus today's Hebron, where some 400 settlers guarded by hundreds more soldiers live surrounded by 130,000 Palestinians - and guns blaze almost daily...