Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pola, a former Italian naval base, about 40,000 Italians were preparing to evacuate. Houses worth $20,000 were being offered for $200 or less. Shopkeepers were trying frantically to turn their stocks into cash. The Italians had openly threatened to burn the town down before leaving, and a very worried British major representing A.M.G. predicted...
...takes off from reality, and then he is at his best. He tells of people with one eyebrow black and the other white, who cut up a sofa to make a fiddle, whose goats change sex, whose clocks strike 13, who drink so much they catch fire inside and burn to death...
...Fuel and Power launched an all-out attack on Britain's 28 million-odd cherished open fireplaces. The filthy things, said the report, not only waste coal and give no heat, but definitely bring on lung diseases. * Recommended: central heating with gas, electricity or "other systems that burn smokeless, solid fuel...
Cried a woman: "Thar's a burnin' mountain in the sky. Hit looks like a hillside on fire when ye burn a clearin' in the spring...
Second biggest cause of atom deaths, said Captain Warren, was from flash burn caused by the blinding "atom light"-as bright "as though you had stepped up the intensity...