Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ready said that the cars, especially on Boylston St. and some side streets, were preventing the snow-plows from clearing the roads. "If there was a fire at the end of one of those streets, some of the buildings would burn to the ground before we got an engine through," he added...
...position as a state highly developed in industry, technology and science. Yet professional workers are involved in a constant and exhausting struggle for economic survival." Finance Minister Levi Eshkol's reply was to say that the nation could not afford raises. Besides, he added. "I would rather burn the money than hand it over to the professionals...
...Colonel Buyers, a strong, silent type. In response to one Buyers order, a humane but misguided underling speaks up in a line of dialogue dear to a thousand movie writers: "Dammit, Buyers! . . . You're not God! There must be twenty thousand people trapped in there. They'll burn unless we get them out." There are at least 40,000, and the like of the fire that rolls over them has not been seen since David O. Selznick put the Technicolor torch to Atlanta in Gone With the Wind. As the victims race through the streets, they "topple...
...Smash, Burn, Kill. It was a moment the Communists had been preparing for, a fact well known to Chief Minister Morarji Desai of Bombay State, who is often spoken of as Nehru's heir apparent. Before dawn, on Desai's orders, police arrested 435 Communist, Socialist and United Maharashtra Party leaders. The Communists had prepared for this eventuality, too. Secretly trained alternates swiftly swung into action. At their direction, hundreds of thousands of Maharashtrian workers dropped their work and swarmed out of dockyards, textile mills and railroad shops into the streets, shouting "Death to Nehru!" The rioters blocked...
...designers of the ICBM believe that re-entry is their worst problem. The missile must not burn up, as most natural meteors do, and it must not lose its shape. Its thermonuclear warhead must not be exploded prematurely, and it must not be so damaged that it will not explode...