Word: burned
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Carl Vinson, 78, of Milledgeville, Ga.has spent 45 years influencing military legislation in the House of Representatives, where he is known fondly as "Uncle Carl," "The Admiral" and "The Swamp Fox." Since World War II, Chairman Vinson of the Armed Services Committee has been doing a slow burn while Pentagon leaders under Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy refused to use money voted by Congress for specific projects. Examples: construction of a Navy supercarrier in 1949; ordering additional Air Force B-525 in 1961. Last week Uncle Carl finally lost his temper over the issue of how much...
...Letters should be burned," she once told a friend. And the last of these garrulous, amusing, crotchety, churchy letters to Father Johnson ends: "I'm glad you like to have my letters. Really 100? I think you'd better get rid of them, of any you have kept, in that incinerator! I own I have kept yours . . . but I will burn them before I die; they're not for other people...
...millionaires were stripped of their wealth, and frills like engagement rings, high weddings or elaborate funerals were forbidden. When goods continued to be smuggled in from Japan, Hong Kong and American PXs, General Park proclaimed: "The sight of luxury goods arouses wanton desires in the mind of the people. Burn them...
...jettisoned after the rockets themselves had been fired. But the packet itself was bound to the capsule by three thin metal bands. Williams figured that the bands might be strong enough to hold the shield to the capsule during the descent. He knew that the heat would eventually burn away the straps, but he hoped that by that time the air resistance would be dense enough to hold the shield in place...
...Cartier's, helps her husband in the photo darkrooms. Right now, she is writing a play about permissive parents called Why Must Women Have Children? "It will probably be absolutely lousy. The producer I showed my first play to looked at me and advised: 'Burn it.' But I'm enjoying it. I'm having a marvelous time...