Word: burn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threw a firecracker in the shower while Tom was in there tonight--yeh, but he tried to burn my door5A crew race is to huddle up near and hop on a car to, and take your shoes off at. A crew race is to tear down the streets of Providence toward and sing "I'm a Brown man born" with, and feel your hair and your shirt blow in the breeze on, and drink...
...however, the coded order for two toasted English muffins which rarely failed to raise my English eyes from my food. Obviously, there was no inflaming, no provocative connotations in the cry "Burn two British," since the clatter of conversation continued without pause. No, if the cry evoked any visions at all it was of an act whose consummate justness was self-evident and required not even a smile The Manchester Guardian Weekly, April...
...with soup. At one dinner with the late Governor Frank Murphy, young Pol Williams eased himself into a dining-room chair, sloshed his four-in-hand in the mushroom soup, stood up, dripped more soup down his shirt front. Mother Williams rushed for cleaning gear, allowed the rolls to burn in the confusion, choking the guests with kitchen smoke. But the evening was not lost. Commented Nancy: "It did succeed in breaking the ice with guests, though, and shortly all formality was forgotten...
...belonged to the black stallions rearing from the emblem on the red, low-slung noses of Italy's Ferraris. Ferrari Driver Peter Collins, 27, took time out for a mid-race rest and chirped happily: "Mission accomplished. We went like hell for a while to make them burn up if they were going to, and it worked...
...miles wide along the Algerian side of the frontier. All civilians-an estimated 70,000-will be evacuated from this area, and French patrols and aircraft will have orders to shoot anything that moves within the forbidden zone. To deny the rebels cover, the French plan to burn off a huge area of scrub forest with napalm over a period of three months. "If so much as a bird flies, it will be shot down," boasted one French official. Pointing out that the elimination of one forest still left several thousand square miles of terrain rich in cover, an F.L.N...