Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the three-hour statement, an automobile belonging to the Boston Record American-Herald Traveler was set on fire at one end of the skirmish line. As Boston firemen extinguished the blaze, police herded the rest of the crowd--which had now dwindled to about 2000--west down Commonwealth...
...Nina Simone. She appeals to the Sinatra set as much as the jazz buffs, to the over-40s as much as their rock-bopping offspring. Her secret is that emotionally, she banks her fires. She knows that a low flame burns longer and more intriguingly than a high blaze. Thanks to her training, her voice retains a classical elegance, avoiding the frenzied bleating that characterizes so much pop singing today...
...people--students, faculty, workmen, and bystanders--who were kind enough to help clean up the debris after the disturbance last week at the Center for International Affairs. The fire was set in my office, and the firemen had to throw out a good deal of material to keep the blaze from spreading. But the efforts of all these people to put out the fire and to salvage papers kept losses to a minimum. I am sorry that, in the confusion, I could not thank each of these friends personally...
...headquarters of the Cambridge Fire Department is located only a half-block away from the IBM building, and firemen were able to extinguish the blaze within minutes...
...adrenaline freaks who love the challenge of a fire and take pride in their intricate special skills. They exult in the "victory" when a blaze is beaten down. In the busy companies, Smith explains, the morale is tremendous. The men scramble for the front position on the hose; they take a military pride in their battle scars; and in the heat of a fire fight they would die to save a victim from the flames - and in fact they often do. In Smith's well-supported opinion, they are indeed "New York's Bravest...