Word: burned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blood will flow as never before. The land will burn from the north to the south, from the east to the west. There will be no sunrise nor sunset, just one big flame licking the sky. It will be the greatest slaughter in history. There will be a Himalaya of corpses...
...down twelve pints of beer while Big Ben was announcing midnight. "I am one of the few people I know," says Burton, "who drinks only when he works." And this is true. Between plays or films, his intake dwindles toward zero. But when he is working, he has "to burn up the flatness?the stale, empty, flat, dull deadness that one feels when one comes off a stage...
Throughout it all, Premier Inonu per formed a classic slow burn, letting the Justice crowd have its fun for six days. At last, the exasperated authorities could take no more, sent Bayar off to a hospital. Just a physical examination, the cops assured the old man, who promptly went on a hunger strike. A guard was put on the door of his hospital room, and the news soon spread that Bayar's parole had been revoked. The end of the trail might well be the jailhouse again, for at week's end the public prosecutor began proceedings against...
Once, the Queen actually sailed into a New Jersey port with fires smoldering, unloaded her cargo, and sailed off again-still burning. The crewmen were in constant fear and complained to their union. A furloughed crewman, Able Seaman Zack Booth, a huge fellow known to his friends as "Big Brother," testified that one sailor, now missing, told him: "Big Brother, we are about to burn our house down...
Tony has had better material, but he has never made more out of less. He skitters through his best scenes like a cat in pattens. He flicks a bad line away as a zillionaire might irritably flick a pearl out of an oyster. And when he does a slow burn you could fry an egg on his deadpan. Cary should approve...