Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stooped back of an old man, had been captured in Czechoslovakia and shipped to a Soviet camp. In 1949, a Russian officer and woman interpreter came to question him: "They asked me whether I had ever passed through a certain village and whether I had been ordered to burn or loot. I said no. They put me into a cell with . . . just room to stand and said, 'If you don't confess, we will leave you here until your legs fall...
...companion to William Einhorn, a lecherous, conniving old paralytic. To Augie, Einhorn was in a class with Caesar, Machiavelli and Ulysses ("I'm not kidding when I enter Einhorn in this eminent list"). Einhorn's idea of buying his wife a new living-room suite was to burn the old one and pay with the insurance money. Before being ruined in the Crash, he gave Augie a damaged, set of the Harvard Classics and assured him that Augie himself could determine what he would become...
...against such topnotchers as Seattle's Pat Lesser, Georgia's Mary Lena Faulk and Barbara Romack of Sacramento. The thought of "so many of them all so good" prompted Lesbia to get down to a bit of practice last week. Lesbia did not expect to burn up the practice course: "The only time I really like to play is in a tournament. I don't know why, but I just do better with all those people staring...
...power plants will burn 7,500,000 tons of coal a year, and will have a capacity of 2,200,000 kw., of which the AEC will use 1,800,000 in producing the radioactive isotope U-235 at its new plant. The rest will be sold to private power users...
...went about his practice routine-three shots, differently placed, from every tee-Scottish annoyance turned to admiration for the dour little man from Texas. Before long, the Scots were calling him, almost affectionately, "The Wee Ice Mon," though a hard core still proudly insisted: "No American is going to burn up Carnoustie...