Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year and a half ago a WAF photo-interpreter, Flying Officer Constance Babington-Smith, gave the first alarm: she spotted a plane model in a picture taken over the German experimental station at Peenemünde. A black smudge around the model looked like the burn of a rocket blast...
...troop commander told the sergeant, the troop recorder, to be ready to burn his papers. One of the lieutenants looked over at the sergeant, quietly sorting documents into two piles on a table, and said: "It will be the first time this C.P. ever pulled out of any place...
...western Washington's Satsop Valley, Albert Kuhlne pastured his cattle along a grass-grown waste of charred logs and blackberry thickets-the scorched remains of a forest fire in 1902. But this summer, as Northwest plywood and lumber mills went hungry for logs, Kuhlne wondered if the "old burn" might not still have some good timber in it. He sawed into a charred tree. After 42 years its core, sealed in by charcoal, was still sound. He found 5,000,000 feet of burned but merchantable timber lying on 400 acres around...
Biggest Crematorium. "In the center of the camp stands a huge stone building with a factory chimney-the world's biggest crematorium. The Germans attempted to burn it but most of it still stands-a grim monument to the Third Reich...
What happens when six real Marines take Woodrow in hand and forcibly escort him home, his ill-fitting uniform bristling with extemporaneous decorations, is the stuff which makes Hail the Conquering Hero one of the year's most ingratiating pictures. When grateful townspeople solemnly burn the mortgage on the old Truesmith homestead and make plans to erect a suitable monument in the town square, Woodrow's misery seems to have reached its bearable limit. But it touches new depths when, in one of the most uproarious political campaigns in cinema history, the desperately reluctant Woodrow is nominated...