Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view, he is forcing his voice, especially in the abandon with which he hurls himself into high notes at top volume. Lanza's voice may be able to take this abuse for two or three more years before he hurts it, say the experts; ultimately, he will burn...
When Hitler began burning books in the '30s, William Foyle cabled him: "Can offer high price for all banned books. Do not burn them. Will you negotiate?" Hitler refused to negotiate, but Foyle got his name in the papers. Some of Foyle's publicity comes readymade: a few months ago, a tough who had been knifed in a nearby alleyway staggered into Foyle's, died on the floor of the murder mystery department. Sniffed suspicious Londoners: "Just another one of Foyle's stunts...
...Middle East, where order threatened to burn away in a fire of nationalism, an old king and an old politician went, down before assassins' bullets. In Belgium, the crowning of a young king promised to heal the disunion of his nation...
...Only 3½ miles from the Oak Park, Ill. home of Dr. Percy Lavon Julian, famed Negro chemist. Hoodlums tried to burn the Julian home in November, tossed a bomb in the front yard last month...
Four workers are assigned the sole task of replacing the 600 light bulbs which burn out each day. Another four are professional clockwatchers; their job is to keep an eye on the master control panel on which 4,000 Pentagon clocks are synchronized. Carpenters pedal from job to job on bicycles. The day's waste paper (ten tons of it, not including classified material) is trucked away and sold for an average $80,000 a year. In an outlying building, the sewage is processed and tidily packed for use as fertilizer on the Pentagon's surrounding lawns...