Word: burn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Welles: "Why did you burn...
...yanquis left, hard times came back. He called on the Virgin to help him win the national lottery, but no such miracle took place. Said Sanchez: "From that day I felt in my heart hate and vengeance for the Virgin." He determined to steal the wooden image, and burn...
...Charley Gray," prototype of the millions of decent, middle-class U.S. citizens who burn themselves out in the race to pass the Blakesleys and creep up on the Burtons, is the central figure in the new novel...
They threatened to return and bomb Mrs. McDanal's neat white house, or burn it down, "if we hear anything else." Then the neighbors piled into their 16 cars, having no more advice to dispense that night, and rode home to their beds...
...energy into a blast of hot gas shot out the tailpipe, they extract some of it by means of a turbine set in the blast and use it to drive a conventional propeller. This compromise gives turboprops some advantage. They are simpler and lighter than piston engines, and they burn cheap, nonexplosive kerosene instead of high-octane gas. Unlike turbojets, they do not have to fly at extremely high speeds to operate efficiently. At the speeds practical for present-day airliners (300-plus m.p.h.), the jet's high velocity blast wastes much of its energy in merely pushing...