Word: burned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike other gas-producing nations, however, The Netherlands will not burn up its natural gas to make electric power. Instead, the Dutch will export it to West Germany, Belgium, and possibly Britain, and continue to make their own electricity with imported fuel oil, which is cheaper than gas. By careful management, Dutch planners expect to keep the Groningen field in production for 30 years-or roughly the amount of time they expect it to take before nuclear energy begins to emerge as Europe's main power source...
...favor of rural electrification. The Voices of Glory. which should have been a great book, suffers irreparably from too villainous villains, too pure heroes, and a heroine who, if she were to carry that serum through one more mile of waist-deep snow, would surely prompt the reader to burn all his Christmas seals...
...Aiee," cried Nekrozotar. "Smoke, froth, snort: animal! Make way for death! Shake the bells, set up altars, light candles, spray holy water, gnash your teeth, cry with bloody tears, chew ashes, devour each other, kiss each other, go to the left, go to the right, go up, go down, burn incense. The old world is going to perish. Hiue...
...Then burn! she sang. For flames consume the air! Your weight shall win! I will be yours somewhere! I am confused! he cried in flames. Undone ! You're mine to burn? Bright love, what have...
There was, perhaps, an undermanned stockade a mile or so away. If the alarm was given soon enough, he could crouch there in relative safety and watch his homestead burn. If there was no alarm-the usual case-he would almost certainly be butchered or held captive for the squaws to torture. Occasionally a captive would be ransomed or adopted, but young children were never spared; they were too weak to stand a long march to an Indian village, and were customarily brained against trees. Both sides took scalps as a matter of course, but on the whole the Indians...