Word: burn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meat supply is faced with a still greater threat-an invasion of the dread foot & mouth disease.* The worst outbreak (1914-16) forced the U.S. to slaughter and burn or bury (in quicklime) 175,000 U.S. animals before it was licked. The next time the battle may not be won-even at such cost. Said Dr. M. R. Clarkson, Department of Agriculture scientist: "If the disease ever gets across the Rio Grande, it would cost the U.S. at least $1 billion a year. It will affect all parts of the livestock industry, and it would be almost impossible to check...
...Waterville area was covered with dense clouds Sunday night, Smith held it possible that a flaming meteorite might not be seen or might burn out before it passed through the clouds...
...Mirror since 1931, built it up from a circulation of only 800,000. As if this were not enough to compensate for an inferiority complex, self-made Mister Bart bought himself the biggest Rolls Royce in Fleet Street, still likes to burn up the road ("I've done 97"). He works an 8:30 to 5:30 day, rarely sees the Mirror until next morning. But sometimes he pops in late at night when the presses are running and rips the paper apart if he doesn't like it. Never a reporter, Bartholomew started out in the Mirror...
...threatened to burn the minister's home if he did not turn the Jim Crow violators over to them, and the Negroes escaped lynching only through the strong action of the minister, whose family was ultimately forced to leave the town for several weeks...
...accuse the Hitler system," cried Sachsenhausen's Dr. Heinz Baumkoetter. (He used to pour burning phosphorus on his patients, so that afterwards he could test the efficacy of burn salves.) "I accuse the system which made me-a harmless man by nature-into a criminal against humanity." Only dandified, cadaverous Willy Shubert, who had once earned a medal and a holiday in Italy for helping to kill 18,000 Russians in three months, refused to grovel. "I killed men on orders," he boasted, "and I killed men without orders." Sachsenhausen's commander in chief, pig-eyed, bulletheaded Anton...