Word: blazes
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...Melbourne, arsonists were blamed for starting a fire that burned out more than 15,000 acres and cut a swathe through the tiny town of Boolarra. Boolarra resident Peter Stasinowsky, who stamped out embers with his feet and used a garden hose to save his home, described the blaze as "bloody huge."(Read "In Tongues of Flame...
...This is never something that she presented as an achievement or as an issue...It was remarkable that she could blaze so many trails without ever posturing as a pioneer,” said classics professor Jan M. Ziolkowski, director of Harvard’s research center Dumbarton Oaks, which Laiou led for nine years. “She just bolted forward on the basis of her knowledge, intelligence, views, and talents...
...desperation to get something—anything—done. Comprehensive immigration reform was, after years of personal investment by President Bush, finally scrapped; ratification of the Kyoto Protocol was quietly shelved by the Clinton Administration. At least Hillarycare went down in a passionate and ignoble blaze...
...only good thing about most epidemics is that if you act fast you can snuff them out before a local brushfire becomes a global blaze. That's what happened in 2002, when the SARS outbreak was contained after claiming thousands - rather than millions - of lives worldwide. That's what failed to happen in 1918, when a rare avian flu made the jump to humans and killed 50 million people before it was brought to heel...
...front of a large oil painting. The Englishman had depicted some kind of incomprehensible allegory–a leopard, a sextant, philosophical books, and in the middle of it all a painted man, naked.Felicity stood, aghast. She felt the rising tide within her breast, the swelling of a liquid blaze that she could not suppress. She knew not from whence this Irish fire came; it overflowed from some inner latent sea to fill her mouth, to seep from her nether regions, straining to burst. She hardly noticed when Frederick departed to the small sculpture gallery off the main hall...