Word: burn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Touching on a similar subject, brown-skinned Nightclub Singer Lena Home told an interviewer from the Negro picture magazine Ebony:"The people who make me burn are the Negroes . . . who make .heir money off of Jim Crow and who won't fight it. Even worse are the Negroes . . . who hate all whites indiscriminately. . . . Negroes ought to have better sense than slamming a whole group at once...
Minority Leader Ray burn: I had hoped very much, Mr. President, there would be no special session of Congress. Can't something be worked...
...Communists use guerrilla tactics, moving swiftly and attacking at night, hiding in villages and resting in the day time. . . . They are attempting to bring down the Government not by destroying its armed forces but by wrecking the economic life of the country. Hence, they do not hesitate to burn towns and villages, destroy railroads . . . and blow up industrial installations, such as power plants, which they cannot carry away...
...Business. . . . By international Redbaiting and war scares they try to frighten us into patience under their extortionate greed. ... [It is] the policy of the trusts to re-establish a reactionary Germany as economic dictator over Europe. We declare to the people of the world that we will not . . . burn them alive with atom bombs to enforce the re-establishment of international monopolies...
...Hamilton, Cal astronomers scan the stars. The university operates the atom-bomb city of Los Alamos, N.Mex. It owns ranches, waterworks, apartment buildings, forests, and the world's biggest cyclotron. On its 10,000 acres grow tomatoes, peaches, oranges, olives, avocados, alfalfa. A man can get frostbite or burn to a crisp without leaving university premises. The university employs 12,000 professors, janitors, secretaries and swineherds. It will spend $36,990,000 this year to run its eight campuses...