Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though, the fire was under control, and the flames were killed although at that time "we were still chasing fire in the walls," Deputy Fire Chief Joseph Healey said after the blaze was quelled...
Three large hook-and-ladders wererequired to put out the blaze. Only one general alarm in Cambridge fire stations was sounded...
...wings-one pair pointing down, one pair up, and the third pair spread to fly. It was a formula that could achieve a hierarchic majesty-no angelic being radiates more effortless authority than the mosaic cherub in St. Mark's in Venice, unfurling his blue wings against a blaze of gold mosaic. In the general humanization of angels during the Renaissance, the cherub's presence quickly succumbed. He became crossed with the amoretti, or baby cupids, of antiquity; the result, a tumbling, rosy piglet of an angel, did not (even in Rubens' hands) quite make...
...publication. Too many people, Olney thinks, confuse grande cuisine with "Grand Palace, or international hotel cooking." The truth is that Escoffier never found fillet of beef in pastry fit for Wellington or anyone else, and virtually nothing-except an occasional intemperate chef-came out of the kitchen in a blaze of brandy...
...invent humanism, rationalism and Western civilization, betrayed his best friend to the Athenian FBI, and made love to the wives of all his friends. By teaching his greatest love, a Helot woman, to read and write and think politically, he has set events in motion that end in a blaze of atrocity and civil...