Word: burned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...April 28, Robert H. Pell, head of Harvard's Army ROTC unit, received a mimeographed letter from "The Anti-War Establishment" which said, "a group of students has become so concerned with the cancer that exists in Shannon Hall that they believe the only recourse is to burn...
...part came at the end. I was ready to go, ready to rise, ready even to burn. After the brilliant man was through a boy stood up. "Some of us want to go down to the administration building and occupy it behind the military demands," he said. "Everybody who wants to go stand up." Eleven people in a hall of 5000 rose...
...planning to burn their books? Thomas Lumbard...
...students I blast are not the dissenters, but the destroyers-the less than 4% who lock up deans in washrooms, who burn manuscripts of unpublished books, who make combination pigpens and playpens of their universities. The remaining 96% detest them as heartily as I do. They are the kids who invite me to their campuses, give me their ovations. To call a guy "anti-youth" because he is revolted by the gangsters among them is as fraudulent as to call LIFE magazine "anti-Italian" because it is revolted by the Mafia...
Coiled Tubing. The new steamer, a brainchild of William Lear, developer of the Lear Jet, supposedly has none of the liabilities of the old. It is powered by an external-combustion motor (which burns fuel outside the cylinders), uses yards of coiled tubing instead of an old-fashioned steam boiler and a special chemical preparation (to prevent freezing) instead of water. The fluid is sealed in, so it can't boil away. It is superheated to vapor by a burner that, according to Lear, "can burn anything from ground camel dung to high-grade gasoline"-although he recommends kerosene...