Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just say, "Look, when I need you I'll need you in a hurry and if you're not there it'll sure mess things up." (Appeal to its logic.) To the toast you say, "Please don't burn because you're all the bread I have and I'm hungry." (That has sort of the same effect as "You're the only man in the world for me.") To the lawn, "Drink this delicious water and get green so you'll be prettier than the others." (Things love competition...
...memory of the Ardeatine slaughter burns in Italian minds more vividly than any other calamity of the. war. Day after day black-clad men & women, carrying huge bundles of flowers, trudge up a barren hill six miles south of Rome to the dismal caverns, where candles burn day & night by rows and rows of plain pine coffins...
...world's fastest human" has a $60-a-month part-time job sweeping halls. With that and his monthly G.I. allowance ($90), Patton just managed to support his family, until Congress boosted the G.I. allotment to $120 a month. Says Patton: "We've got money to burn...
Citation is a horse who needs plenty of work. If he doesn't get it, he almost kicks the slats out of his stall. Rather than burn up the energy in morning workouts, Trainer Jimmy Jones decided last week that it was more profitable to give Citation his work in the afternoon. Jones entered the wonder horse in the $50,000 Stars & Stripes handicap at Arlington Park, Ill., his first race since winning the triple crown (TIME, June 21). It was only Citation's third race against older horses, easily the toughest handicap field he had ever faced...
...inch) at peak. They tinkered hardly at all with the original idea of the 19th Century Scotsmen. When they got through, they had engines that weigh only 10 to 20 Ibs. per horsepower and are about as efficient as diesels. Their simplicity makes them cheap to maintain, and they burn almost any fuel, from oil to coal or corncobs...