Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week a blaze believed to be set by arsonists swept through the student union building, causing $2,000,000 in damages despite the efforts of students who helped firemen carry out art objects and furnishings. Nor did the terrorists confine their activities to arson. Snipers shot at firemen who came to fight a fire in an off-campus building, drilled three holes in a fire engine...
Yesterday morning, a small fire flared briefly in the Yale Law School Library. The blaze was extinguished after doing $2000 damage. Preliminary reports indicate a strong possibility of arson. a fact which has served to increase the tension here...
Swigert is no stranger to in-flight emergencies. Once, while flying with the Air Force in Korea, he landed his plane in a driving squall, crashed into a road grader someone had left on the runway and walked away unscratched from the blaze that demolished his aircraft. Another time, as he was landing at Buckley Air Field near Denver, his brakes failed and his plane slammed into the base's arresting cables, but he escaped unhurt. Although he was a last-minute replacement on Apollo 13's star-crossed trip, Swigert showed great skill in improvising new emergency...
Earlier in the evening, demonstrators hurled a firebrand through the shattered front window of the Coop, but others pulled the burning board out of the building before the blaze spread...
Some of the protestors broke the front windows of the Northeast Federal Savings bank and hurled a firebrand through the broken glass. Cambridge firemen extinguished the blaze after only superficial damage to the window case and part of the lobby...