Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles from the Communist front lines southwest of Shanghai, in the city's smartest residential section, a fresh-faced young Chinese officer stood before a bluff, hearty Englishwoman. Behind him stood several soldiers, holding baskets of wood shavings. They had come to burn down Mrs. Gladys Hawkings' house because it was "in the line of fire." Said firm, 58-year-old Mrs. Hawkings: "Young man, I was living in this house before you were born. This is my home and I intend to stay...
Swedes stepped from the stand, exhausted, they had the zazous mopping their brows too. "Who would have thought those cold Nordics could burn so hot?" they marveled, and "hot enough to crack those icebergs...
Assured of high prices, potato farmers produced like crazy and the Government had to buy mountains of spuds. It would have been cheaper to burn them or let them rot, but that always produced nasty cartoons in the papers, so the Administration went to great expense to deliver them for almost nothing to alcohol-making plants and farmers with livestock to feed. Average check from the Treasury to potato growers who sold...
York Herald Tribune's Gaston Coblentz, all in Belgrade; the London Times' Michael Burn, in Budapest; United Press' Richard S. Clark, in Prague...
...monotony took a toll, too. A man suddenly began to run in circles, declaring that Providence had decreed that he was to be buried in that circle (he was soundly trussed up and placed in a wagon). A woman suddenly began to set fire to anything that would burn. Halfway from the Missouri to the goldfields, the number of abandoned wagons increased noticeably. Some of the outfits began to shoot their dogs -the barking caused too many of the travelers' cattle to stampede. But the caravans kept coming...