Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have known the dreariness and weariness of this town in wartime is to appreciate the laughter, the smiles, the gay colors that fill every broad street and crooked winding alley now. . . . To see the lights burn unshaded, to see a half-dead village suddenly become wonderfully alive, to see Dutch boys once more united with their families, is almost compensation enough for the inconvenience that I have had to face here. They are not things to write about. They are feelings which have to be felt, and often the whole story is conveyed in a look, a smile, a handshake...
...around an officer who shouted orders. Then they scattered toward the parked U.S. fighter planes and bombers. Rear-area technicians (some of whom had never before seen a Japanese close) grabbed carbines and rifles, pitched in to fight a battle that lasted almost two hours. The Japs managed to burn a few U.S. planes, but by dawn the invaders were dead, some of them by their own grenades...
...Winston Churchill's blistering attack on his World War II neutrality (TIME, May 21), Eamon de Valera replied: "I have deliberately decided that ... I will not be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. Allowances can be made for Mr. Churchill's statement, however unworthy, in the first flush of his victory...
...Right is Reader Cruse. Some acetates do burn, but cellulose acetate is not one of them...
...victory orgy got off to a rather pedestrian start on Monday with speeches and fireworks. At 11:15 at night Police Desk Sergeant Charles White leaned back in his chair, said: "My God, things are dead. . . . Nothing like last time, when they tried to burn the city hall." Three minutes later the first alarm sounded. A few blocks away, patrolmen found a streetcar burning. Then a mob tipped over the patrol wagon. Then a sailor ignited the gas that spilled...