Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Helvick is a nom de plume of Claude Cockburn (rhymes with toe-burn), British journalist...
...ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn...
Flaming starkly in cold October air, the white fires of steel processing burn inexorably into the small hours of the morning. At the foot of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a Lehigh Valley R. R. Co. freight train hisses steam for ten minutes and then continues along the shore of the Lehigh River. One of many steelworkers on the night shift of the Bethlehem Steel Company, a huge plant which stretches out of the city for almost five miles, lifts his goggles and sits on an iron pig to eat a supper of cold pork and white bread. For him, and thousands...
...When I first got here I had to stay up most of the first night convincing my roommate that I wasn't going to burn a cross in the living room or something like that. He wanted to move out," one sophomore from Georgia related. "He was from Connecticut...
...your children's library," thundered the Literary Gazette, official organ of the Soviet Writers' Union, in a review last week. "Even if you do not find the book in it, do not get complacent. Go around to the bookshops and buy all the copies you see and burn all the ones you buy. Get your friends to do the same...