Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Juvenile delinquency is high. Officials blame it largely on the fact that jobs are easy to get. A 17-year-old is likely to make 500 kroner a month ($96.50) and has money to burn on drink and excitement. Most of the juvenile crimes are thefts of cars and motorcycles, done for the hell...
...reactions. They sent for a chemical extinguisher. When they tried to enter a top-story window, however, strong fumes forced a retreat. By the time gas masks arrived, an instructor had informed the firemen that it would be safe to use water. Meanwhile the fire had been left to burn merrily for over an hour, and five more trucks arrived to fight the blaze. After a brief bombardment of flying glass from disintegrating chemical bottles, firemen finally subdued the flames. Only the stone construction and internal brick partitions prevented total destruction...
...paint and fire attacks. Several years ago a group of undergraduates painted a crimson "H" in the center of the field; fast work by a team of Yale grass-cutters had the "H" removed by game time. Last year some Princetonions managed to elude the guards and searchlights to burn a large "P" on the field. This time the brand remained throughout the game, and Yale doubled the Bowl's police guard. But the most extensive damage was done before the Hill-house-West Haven High School champion game of 1947. A Hill house partisan, equipped with a liberal amount...
...LaPaz pointed out that meteors big enough to penetrate the lower atmosphere do not occur in showers. The so-called meteor showers are caused by very small particles that burn out quickly far above the earth. The green color is unusual, too. Meteorites generally roar like jet planes as they approach the earth, but most observers insisted that these odd objects were completely silent. Though some of them seemed to hit the surface with a flash, brilliant even in daylight, search parties so far have found no remains of the mysterious fireballs...
...shooting at Italy's Cinecitta Studios, nine minutes short of three hours in the theater, the picture recreates ancient Rome with massive splendor and lavish detail. Nero's court lolls midst pleasures and palaces. Massed legions march in triumph through crowd-choked avenues. Mobs flee the burning city and storm Nero's palace. Christian martyrs fall to a pack of lions, burn by the score at rows of stakes in the arena of the Circus Maximus. One of them, Ursus...