Word: burn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saul A. Chafin, chief of University Police, said yesterday police are having trouble deciphering the message and deciding whether the individuals involved were deliberately trying to burn the brick building or just wanted to do something symbolic...
...source close to the police said yesterday investigators are trying to determine whether the fire was a serious attempt to burn down the building and harm Bok or merely a symbolic act by a group upset with something Bok or the Corporation has done...
...suspected that Arnold lived out on the edge (where else would you use all those muscles?), that Arnold too was an existentialist. It was not insignificant to Hercules that America had become a nation of joggers, that America had a jogging president at the time the embassies started to burn. Why jog? Hercules remembered seeing a frog's heart pumping away in saline solution, two hours after the frog died. Joggers were interested in living long lives, not necessarily good ones; they forgot that, as Engels wrote, "Quality changes quality...
...almost 8% from year-earlier levels; diesel and home heating oil sales were off 6.9%. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency gave permission to New England's largest power plant, the Brayton Point utility in Somerset, Mass., to conserve more oil by converting two of its four generators to burn low-sulfur coal. The energy supply picture also looked a bit brighter because Texaco announced a new find of natural gas in the Baltimore Canyon off the New Jersey coast...
...highly charged text is by his children, Tobias, Lucretia and Hosie, and his wife Lisa. All of them are manifestly dazed by the artwork. With good reason. A renowned graphic artist and sculptor, Baskin Sr. limns a whole aviary of familiar birds. But his subjects' eyes seem to burn through the pages, and the rendering of their beaks and feathers makes even the common robin and crow seem birds of paradise...