Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...several reasons, viz., as follows and to wit: there is a substantial mortgage on this place. I do not keep any checking account, holding my cash in my left and right pants pockets and keeping my accounts on a clear pine board which I burn on March 16, after having made a true and honest accounting of my net income, if any . . . My legal advisers are two of the Justices of the New Hampshire Superior Court and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire . . . These gentlemen help themselves to coffee and doughnuts in my kitchen when...
...running backs, Dartmouth has Bill Roberts, who led the League in rushing last year, at fullback and four halfbacks who have speed to burn--Bob Tyler, Charles Curtis, and Ed Williams at left half; Ed Isbey at right half. Williams has suffered a broken neck and a broken leg since he started playing football at Hanover; he appears quite...
...periphery of the conflagration, firemen would set up mobile stations, try to supplement the inadequate and ruptured water supply with water pumped from the island's flanking rivers. Policemen would make their way into the devastated area, directing squads of mechanics who would turn off gas mains, burn through tangled girders, tunnel into debris after the entombed. Health department squads would penetrate into the dust-thick hell, monitoring radioactivity. Rescue squads and equipment would be ordered to the scene from undamaged, outlying communities...
Into a huge tent near Gunnison, Colo, last week strode brisk, blue-eyed "Colonel" Arthur Weimer Thompson, dean of U.S. cattle auctioneers. In his clarion voice he addressed his audience of 1,500: "You men are the backbone of America. Burn all the cities down-you farmers and ranchers will live. Tear up the farms and ranches-that's the end for everybody...
...Slow Burn. In Miami, Mrs. Virginia Lorns admitted setting fire to a truck, explained that her boy friend had been using it to call on another woman. In Los Angeles, John G. Murray, who objected to his landlady's pianoplaying, was booked on suspicion of attempted arson, told police: "I was going to burn the house down, and the piano...