Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interested to see in your Oct. 22 issue a picture of a "burning taxi and cremated driver in Hong Kong." I wish to point out a small error in your description in connection with this gruesome picture. Actually, the badly burnt man whose left hand is pinned beneath the burning taxi was one of the rioters and not the taxi driver. The lucky taxi driver managed to fight his way out of the burning car and later out of the hostile crowd of rioters. I also had a very close shave that day at the same spot. I blundered into...
...organic view of society as something that has grown up over time and cannot be arbitrarily changed. It puts more stock in experience than in abstract reasoning. It is skeptical of broad solutions, preferring to go step by step, to cross no bridges before they have been reached, and burn none after they have been crossed...
...When a burn victim has so little healthy skin left that it is difficult to find enough for grafting, it may be stretched by mincing it in a Waring Blendor and applying it with a spray, reported San Francisco's Drs. John S. Najarian and Horace J. McCorkle...
...years of such casual administration, G. A. Lyward has rescued scores of disturbed boys for whom teachers, doctors and parents had given up hope. What is his secret? Correspondent Michael Burn decided to find out. He joined the Finchden Manor staff, eventually published a book (Mr. Lyward's Answer; Hamish Hamilton) that last week was the talk of British educational circles. Though Schoolmaster Lyward's secret is too complex to be entirely clear, he emerges from the book as one of the most unusual of living educators...
...ordinary sense. It has no board of governors, no blazers or old-school ties, no school hall and no chapel. There are no fixed terms or holidays, and except for bedtime and meals, which the boys cook and serve themselves, there are no fixed hours. For Correspondent Burn, one clue to Finchden lies in the word "respite"−the belief, says G. A. Lyward, "that some young people needed complete respite from lessons as such, in schools as such, so that they could be shepherded back from the ways . . . by which they have escaped for a while their real challenge...