Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history and from life into literature, becomes a new piece in a puzzle perpetually being pieced together. While in Europe and the U.S. the horizon is circumscribed by the steel and concrete of ever-rising skyscrapers, in Latin America the vistas for the future are unlimited. There the mills blaze away, and men are currently fighting over whether or not they will be satanic...
Thirty firemen brought the blaze under control within an hour, and contained damages to within $17,000. But the fire still smolders, at least for Peter York...
...while doctors worked on his injured arms, Harvard police entered the hospital emergency room and summarily questioned him on the cause of the fire. He remembers that, still in a daze, he responded with "the first thing that came to my mind"--that "apparently" a discarded cigarette started the blaze...
About 30 firemen brought the blaze under control within an hour, confining most of the damage to York's O-entry room...
...Cambridge Fire Marshall's Office is investigating the origin of the blaze. No official report has been released, but spokesmen for both the Harvard police and the fire department speculated yesterday that a lit cigarette discarded in York's closet caused the fire...