Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bangkok, Thai Premier Kriangsak Chamanand compared the heavy fighting beyond his border to "a fire in a neighbor's house." This blaze, however, cast menacing shadows throughout all Southeast Asia. The most intense heat was generated by the fact that the principal combatants are both wards of the region's two Socialist superpowers. China has long supported Cambodia with arms and guerrilla training. Peking's technicians have been providing expertise in telecommunications and irrigation, while 49 North Koreans attempted (unsuccessfully, as it turned out) to teach the Kampucheans to fly MiG aircraft...
...this intellectual dilly-dallying left the actual story line in woeful shape. Particularly in Gotterdammerung, there are major inconsistencies--most spectacularly, it seems the gods who expire in a blaze of flame and music at the very end need not perish at all, since the ring which had doomed them is back in the hands of its rightful owners...
...blaze, which damaged several rooms extensively, filled the entire third floor of the entry with smoke. Water from fire hoses and water sprinklers leaked through three floors, flooding the Adams House kitchen and forcing Robert T. Martin, dining hall manger, to cancel lunch...
...official, who wished to remain unidentified, said yesterday he believed a burning log rolled out of a fireplace in the room where the blaze began, setting off the fire in A-entry...
...Rainsford Rouner '79, a resident of Adams A-37, the suit where the blaze began, said neither he nor his roommates had used their fireplace for three days before the fire. He added that they "always make sure all of the coals are cold when we leave the room anyway...