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Word: blazing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Calvin Jones stood among the crowd of onlookers as the blaze demolished the school. "When I saw the school burning, tears just came rolling down my face," he says. "My father went to that school, and three of my brothers had graduated from there, and I was getting ready to graduate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Poorest Place In America | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

Federal investigators said a weekend fire that totaled Alabama's racially troubled Randolph County High School was arson. The FBI and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms say "an accelerant" caused the blaze. Meanwhile, the man at the center of the racial fire storm, ex-principal Hulond Humphries, got slapped with a lawsuit from a local TV cameraman. Bill Gill's tape shows Humphries and another man slamming Gill to the ground. The reporter, who is black, says the incident was racially motivated and points to racist statements made during the alleged assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN ALABAMA IT'S ARSON . . . AND A SUIT | 8/10/1994 | See Source »

Record heat and extreme drought combined to ignite the fire season in 11 Western states. On Colorado's Storm King Mountain, 14 fire fighters were killed when they were overtaken by a wind-whipped blaze. In the East, heavy rainfall from the stalled remnants of tropical storm Alberto caused severe flooding in Georgia and Alabama, claiming 24 lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week July 3 -9 | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

Berzofsky said that another roommate, Thomas I. Parks '96, and Parks' younger brother, who was visiting for the weekend, used a fire extinguisher to put out the blaze. Their action may have prevented further damage...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Fire Strikes Eliot House | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...information superhighway will continue to blaze trails through Harvard during the next few weeks, when four more houses receive network connections in students' rooms...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: Network To Be Put In More Houses | 2/8/1994 | See Source »

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