Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Backed by the Ankara government and by some 35,000 Turkish soldiers, a separate Turkish-Cypriot homeland has come into being in a blaze of nationalistic ardor. The red Turkish flag with the white crescent and star flutters from minarets, from official buildings, and from the historic St. Hilarion Castle atop the Kyrenia range. On every second building, signs proclaim: "What we have gained by blood we shall build by sweat...
...much fun as it's cracked up to be. In the second, a pony-drawn fire engine and a faithful old fireman named Sam Trolley are briefly, agonizingly rendered obsolete by a scheming mayor and a big new fire engine-until, of course, they heroically put out a blaze that the big new fire engine has missed...
CORNELL-PRINCETON-What should have been a great year for the Big Red ends on a disappointing note, as Princeton's Walt Snickenberger goes out in a blaze of glory. Sigler's passing will keep this one close, but I imagine that the improving Tigers will emerge victorious. Princeton 28, Cornell...
...what was one of the dreariest campaigns in recent Crimson cross country history, Hawaiian Stein Rafto provided a blaze of sunshine...
...continuing blaze in a remote part of Grand Teton Park represents the first public test of the Park Service's new policy-and many citizens do not like it. Mrs. Miles Seeley, a longtime summer resident of nearby Jackson, Wyo., has begun a petition drive to control what she calls the new "scorched earth policy." Says she: "They have burned up one of the most beautiful areas in Teton County." And almost as bad, the fire is causing massive air pollution by sending carbon monoxide and ash into the atmosphere...