Word: burned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Welles may be the first actor in the history of the theater to appear too fat to play Shakespeare's "huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak bag of guts." In his compilation of five of the Bard's plays, some Wellesian genius flickers but does not burn brightly enough to illuminate the long dull stretches...
...whether the bad boy of American letters has grown enough in the last twenty years to win all the marbles is another issue. But Mailer is not the sort who quits when the stakes get high, and in the next few years, he will probably win his victory or burn himself out. After all the fighting, it would almost make a great novel in itself...
...this message was all but obscured by press and political reaction to four sentences in the speech. As 50 protesters picketed outside the Waldorf with signs reading HELL, NO, WE WON'T GO! and tried to burn him in effigy, Westmoreland confessed that his troops "are dismayed, and so am I, by recent unpatriotic acts here at home." He pointed out that the enemy hopes to "win politically that which he cannot accomplish militarily." Noting that North Viet Nam is waging war both on the battlefield and on the propaganda front, he said that the enemy "does not understand...
...close to his planned landing site in central Russia. But Soyuz was probably still tumbling, and Komarov could not use his retrorockets. Unless an orbiting spacecraft is stabilized and properly oriented when the retrorockets are fired, it can shoot farther into space or re-enter the atmosphere improperly and burn...
...year-old Canadian Army cadet last week sprinted into the Place des Nations amphitheater and, before 5,250 invited dignitaries, handed a blazing torch to Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Grinning, Pearson tipped the flame toward a gas jet in a canister, and a fire flickered up-to burn night and day during the six-month life of Expo...