Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attorney and the chief of State Police asked the questions which were on thousands of other lips. How did the fire start? Eyewitnesses swore the blaze first smouldered at the bottom of the tent near a canvas section raised as a men's restroom. Why did the tent burn with that celluloid fierceness? Circus men said the 19-ton big top had been sprayed with a waterproofing solution last April. It had not been inspected before the show by the Hartford fire marshal...
...Okay. Doolen and Robinson, you come with me into the ship. We'll destroy the equipment and papers, then burn...
Lazily rocking on his back porch Saturday noon, the star boarder of the Poon thought he smelt a seersucker burning. After a quick huddle and a fruitless search for their insurance policy, the amateur fire-sniffers voted 23 to 2 to let the place burn down. Someone, however, had already asked the local hose-and-axemen to "send a man over." He came, but he brought his friends: three engine companies, two hook-and-ladder trucks and one rescue squad. No smoke, no fire, obviously a false alarm. Whether or not the whole thing was a stunt to increase sales...
...There is something cruel about Africa," he once said, "yet I have never known anyone who stayed there for any length of time who did not burn to go back. . . . Once it gets you, you belong to it for good...
...occasionally confused their identities. Once when Churchill pressed hard for some adjustment which struck De Gaulle as a backward step, he drew himself to his full, unshapely height: "Mr. Prime Minister, now that at last you have Joan of Arc on your side, you are still determined to burn her." As time went on, Churchill's patience with his solemn, intransigent protege wore thinner and thinner...