Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moralists who preached that the Lord's wrath had wiped out the sinful city were answered by a popular ditty: If, as they say, God spanked the town For being over-frisky, Why did he burn all the churches down And spare Hotaling's whiskey...
...result with its unreasoning men, to be chewed to death at last by its chain-gang bloodhounds. More intensively-amid daffy old ladies, a nymphomaniac outcast, knife-flashing bullies and gun-toting racists-it tells of the young man's affair with a woman whose Italian father was burned to death by a mob, and whose husband helped burn him. Symbols of lostness and loneliness, they become victims of corruption and brutality...
...soon as it got its saucer of milk, began to kill the rat, which began to gnaw the rope, which began to hang the butcher, who began to kill the ox, which began to drink the water, which began to quench the fire, which began to burn the stick, which began to beat the dog, which began to bite the little pig-which then in fright jumped over the stile so that the old woman brought it home from market that night after...
...Main Line, Delany made a wise choice. In Villanova's Coach Jim ("Jumbo") Elliott he found a man perfectly attuned to his own theories of running. "I want him running only fast enough to win," says Jumbo. "I've seen too many potentially great milers burn themselves out by running fast week after week." Now that he has taught Ron to relax his arms and shoulders, to get the most out of his quick, hen-scratching strike, Jumbo is positive that his protégé, who once ran the mile in 3:59 in California last June...
Gabriele kept all the paintings Kandinsky had left with her, hiding them in Munich in storage during the first years of the Hitler regime when the Nazis wanted to burn them as decadent, and later building a storage room in the cellar of the Russenhaus, where the paintings remained until they were delivered to the Munich gallery. Last week, beyond one tight-lipped admission ("He was very aristocratic"), she refused to talk about Kandinsky. A brittle octogenarian with startlingly candid eyes and a gentle face, Gabriele still lives in the Russenhaus. The wooden staircase was decorated long...