Word: burn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles southwest of Costa Rica. Hoffmann signed on a crew consisting of three able-bodied seamen, a few waterfront hangers-on, some fine-looking NYA boys from Long Beach, some men who said they were engineers. In quick succession the Metha Nelson rammed another vessel, caromed off a breakwater, burned out a bearing. Bello did not mind; everything, he said, was going to be all right. Then tempers (except Bello's) began to burn out. Two Jewish members of the crew reminded the German captain that the Metha Nelson was a ship, not a Nazi concentration camp. He tossed...
...TIME, as manifested in the following quotations: "The folks of Wiggins, Miss., a quiet sawmill town, have no unusual thirst for Negro blood. They simply know what must be done when a Negro rapes." ". . . They just strung him up in the woods. They didn't shoot or burn his body." Do "they" merit medals in addition to your implied commendation for their failure to shoot or burn the body of their victim after murdering him ? TIME never lets the opinions of its presumably opinionless editors creep into its columns. Perish the thought...
...close the account of the lynching with these words: "- they just strung him up in the woods. They didn't shoot or burn the body." Is this irony-or an accolade...
Coach Paul Mooney's team is built around four experienced campaigners who all play basketball the way their head coach wants it played. That means speed to burn, and the three other men are Ed Anderson, Sam Retano, and Jack Naylor, Footballer Art Radvilas seems to have the inside track on the center job, and there are at least four likely looking prospects sent up from last year's Freshman five...
...first star came to burn." J.P.L...