Word: burned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mound represented what for many centuries was a well-built stone city of about 10,000 inhabitants. The oldest part seems to have flourished before 2500 B.C. It had no city wall, and a layer of ashes shows that its poor defense posture may have enabled an invader to burn it. When the inhabitants built a new city, they encircled it with a substantial wall...
...nightfall, Orlando and Alexandra townships, where 100,000 Africans live, were dotted with scores of dead and wounded as groups moved from door to door demanding that householders burn their hated passbooks. Wisely, the police kept their distance, for this was black fighting black in black territory...
Only fortnight ago Dr. J. Harold Burn of Oxford suggested that the lift usually associated with smoking may be caused by an adrenalin-related hormone called nore-pinephrine?the same hormone that raises the hair on the tail of a scared cat. But most scientists agree that smoking becomes a habit because of emotional compulsions rather than any physical need...
...also use reconstituted or homogenized tobacco (formerly unusable stems and leaves that are pulverized and re-pressed), which was pioneered by Reynolds and copied by the industry. The average filter cigarette now contains about 14% reconstituted tobacco. Many tobaccomen feel that filters, because they have less flavor and often burn faster, actually make people smoke more...
...Casanova role, D'Annunzio seemed at his most laughable-as was demonstrated by his celebrated affair with Actress Eleonora Duce. For once, his histrionics met their match; when she found another woman's hairpins in his guest room, she threatened to burn down his villa "because the temple has been profaned. Flame alone can purify it." But there was nothing preposterous about the poet when he left his muse and Duse to go to the wars. In 1915 D 'Annunzio was living on his fame in Paris, a revered symbol of Italy's risorgimento. but also...