Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then they pushed into the house, saw instantly that someone had set the fire. The unswept, cobwebbed rooms stank from a litter of oily rags; the inner walls of Adamic's barn, which did not burn, had also been doused with oil, apparently taken from the farmhouse fuel tank. A moment later, they found the owner of the sedan. Adamic was lying on his back on a couch in an upstairs bedroom. He was wearing dungarees and a windbreaker, with a pillow at his back, a .22 Mossberg rifle across his lap-and a bullet wound just above...
...numerous. There have also been cases of torture. In one recent case in which the victim died, the policeman responsible was told he had shown "too much zeal." White murderers (except for poisoners) are seldom hanged. A man who shot another in cold blood and then tried to burn the body got four years. But a Negro who stole some cows got eleven years' hard labor. This month, seven white youths who beat an old Negro to death (because a friend of the Negro had hit a friend of theirs) got a year in jail each. Negro murderers...
...billet as captain of the new battleship Indiana in the Pacific. Proved himself a shrewd and relaxed combat officer. Once, when warned by the captain of the ancient Tennessee ("Old Blisterbutt") about making too much smoke, he coolly signaled back: "Smoke unavoidable. Forced to cut out the boilers and burn garbage to slow down to your speed." In 1944, promoted to rear admiral and assigned to MacArthur's theater; led an amphibian group safely through the Hollandia and Philippine invasions...
...beard." (He had.) Shock followed shock. Wieland stripped his stages bare, cut down on all warlike gear save for a few essential spears. Siegfried's funeral pyre was left to the imagination. In Götterdämmerung, nobody got to see Valhalla burn: there was only a red glow in the sky, no sign of a cloud-borne castle...
...When Bob Feller first went to the Cleveland Indians 15 years ago, he was the 17-year-old boy wonder of the majors, who mowed down opposing batters with a blazing fireball. He was still trying to burn them in long after his arm grew old and his speed ball slower, hit bottom in 1949 by winning barely half his games. This year, Bob Feller, no longer a thrower, but a crafty pitcher, is well up the comeback trail. Last week he chalked up his 17th victory of the year (against four defeats), to lead the major leagues in games...