Word: blazes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...flames engulfed the building, the city was lighted by the eerie spectacle, the grand stairway acting like a flume to build the heat. Frightened residents watched into the night until the blaze was extinguished by a violent rainstorm. Next morning the White House was a blackened sandstone shell--but a legend was born...
...turns out, was on fire, burning along the throttle line. It could have exploded and killed her. Instead, some Good Samaritan called the fire department, the two guys with the blanket put out the blaze, and the Datsun was saved to drive another day. It took Hyde a while to understand that she too had been saved. "I finally realized these two guys could have died," she says. "I could have died. I turned around to thank them--and they weren't there. For the next few months, I walked around with this huge sense of regret. But without realizing...
Mark Knopfler, former lead singer of Dire Straits, is not scared to blaze a new trail. In Sailing to Philadelphia, the indignant, muted, yet invitingly incomprehensible lyrics of "Sultans of Swing" are absent. Most of the songs are fairly transparent paeans to episodes of America's folk past, never mind Knopfler's British extraction. The title track features Knopfler and guest James Taylor in a mock-up of a very awkward conversation between Mason and Dixon of Mason-Dixon line fame, but the song holds together if you don't pay attention to the lyrics. Unfortunately, Knopfler seems to have...
...most fervent pursuers had proclaimed his case the biggest thing since the Rosenbergs, but the historical parallel may in fact be closer to the Dreyfus case. Like the turn-of-the-century Jewish Frenchman falsely accused of treason in a blaze of anti-Semitism and finally vindicated after a spell in prison, the Taiwanese-American nuclear scientist is set to go free Monday after reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Unlike Dreyfus, of course, Wen Ho Lee isn't entirely innocent, but the government has been forced to concede that what he's guilty of is simply the negligent...
...continue a lengthy strike. More than 150 students rally in support of the printers. 28 - A fire caused by a lit cigarette guts a suite in Lowell House and sends one student to the hospital. The fire alarm system fails to function, leaving most students unaware of the blaze until police and firefighters arrive...