Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...echelons of higher strategy it was the end of Luzon. But down on the trudge-shoot-and-burn level it was far from over. Anywhere from 14,000 to 20,000 Japanese remained on Luzon, in four pockets besieged by some seven U.S. divisions. To the south, on Mindanao Island, another batch of Japs occupied the fighting time of two more divisions...
...mercy. Assuming that at that height a floating structure would be beyond the pull of the earth's gravity, they proposed to build a platform for launching rockets into interstellar space and for harnessing the sun's heat. By use of a huge reflector, like a burning mirror, they calculated that enough heat could be focused on a chosen area to make an ocean boil or to burn up a city in a flash. Their sun gun could also be used, they pointed out, to produce steam and electric power at global receiving stations...
...hrer's chauffeur, slim, blue-eyed Erich Kempka, told U.S. interrogators that he had helped burn the bodies of Hitler and his newlywed mistress, Eva Braun. Kempka's story...
...Money to Burn. Off the coast of New Hampshire, Matthew Betton drifted in a powerboat for five days, finally set fire to his last twelve dollars, was rescued by fishermen who saw the light...
...woman asked her ration board for ten pounds of canning sugar for her nameless baby, explained: "The baby isn't born yet, but I want to get my canning done before I go to the hospital." Where There's Smoke. In Neosho Rapids, Kan., Farmer Ralph Blank, burn ing trash, watched a plane circle and land in a field nearby. The pilot, a cigaret dangling from his lips, approached and begged a light...