Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Benefactor." Army instructors told Wang that the imperialistic aggressors were overrunning Korea and, if not stopped, would march into Manchuria and burn the villages. His knowledge of Stalin was vague, but the army told him that Stalin was a great benefactor...
...some Christians before the newly elected emperor, Constantine, can arrive and ease their plight. The prefect herds several hundred Christians from the catacombs to violent death before a packed Coliseum. Roman soldiers and gladiators chop off their hands, string them up by their thumbs and by their toes, and burn them alive. Then they unleash a pack of hungry lions, and the stands go wild. So do the lions. So does the movie audience. There hasn't been anything like it in cinema history. If only it were in glorious Technicolor...
Bizet: Carmen (Raoul Jobin, tenor; Solange Michel, soprano; Michel Dens, baritone; Marthe Angelici, soprano, and others; chorus and orchestra of the Paris Opéra-Comique, with André Cluytens conducting; Columbia, 6 sides LP). Soprano Michel lacks the fire to make the title role burn as it should, but the performance as a whole is excellent and so is the recording...
...anti-epidemic measure, the government sent sanitation teams to burn the ruins of Jucuapa. There was not much left to destroy. Only a few buildings, heavily damaged, still stood. The smell of corpses hung over the ruins. Jucuapa was dead...
MacVicar's idea: if limestone containing fossils were heated to sufficiently high temperatures (about 1,800° Centigrade), the soft stone would burn to powder; at the same time, numerous phosphate-coated fossils, which are less sensitive to heat than the limestone, should remain intact...