Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CARMAKERS are testing mod els with turbine engines which burn cheap, diesel-type fuel. General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler all have turbine engines, but expect eventually to use the power plants chiefly in trucks and buses...
...Cartoonist Searle's horror, St. Trinian's has also become a synonym. He first realized this on the day he read a newspaper account of how three girls in Scotland actually did try to burn down a school. "When he read that," says his wife, "he went absolutely white. I kept praying -please, please, don't let them mention St. Trinian's!" But, of course, the newspapers...
...Though a hard core of Scots insisted "No American is going to burn up Carnoustie," this U.S. champion shot a birdie to win the British Open...
...drubbing administered by Navy--the worst defeat in Nassau history--asks that "a new kind of pep rally be held next Friday--a 'back to the team' rally. Let it be held at the scene of the celebrations for Princeton's greatest triumphs, her Big Three victories . . . Let's burn the Bear of Cornell at a big bonfier Friday night in front of Clio Hall, to show that we shall stick by Charlie Caldwell and the team as faithfully as we did during the undefeated years. It was no mean coach that was voted 'Coach of the Year...
...Dulles and U.S. policy has always been the military solution. To parade our military might all over the world-into backward countries where we have no business ; spray our brother with jellied gasoline and set him on fire; burn his women and children with atomic fire. Christianity?-These are the works of Hell...