Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next demonstration of the new class loyalty will be a high school revolt "that will look more like Watts than Berkeley," Goodman prophesied. "Some principal will make a guy cut off his locks," he will commit suicide from humiliation, and his friends will burn down the school...
When asked by an official of the Selective Services to rip up his old draftard. Beecher inquired if he could burn his instead...
They were halfway through when a voice cried, "Ready-get 'em." Four counter-pickets grabbed the demonstrators and Eddie Summers, a junior from Temple University, made off with a flag. While passers-by yelled, "Burn it, spit on it," Summers applied a borrowed cigarette lighter to the flag. It wouldn't burn. He tried to tear it. It wouldn't tear. He spat on it. Then police, who broke up the fight and then watched the attempted flag burning, moved in and took the banner away...
...three-second burn from the backward-firing thrusters, for example, will increase an astronaut's forward velocity by one foot per second. Because there is no air friction to slow him down, the astronaut will have to use his forward-firing thrusters for exactly three seconds to stop his forward motion as he approaches his destination. If his timing is inaccurate, he may crash into his target or wind up bouncing back and forth like a celestial ping pong ball...
Martin Quarrier is a fundamentalist missionary who enters the jungle to save the Niaruna. He is a kindly but conventional Christian who truly believes that the Indians will burn in brimstone if he does not baptize them. He pays for his stupidity to the uttermost farthing. The Niaruna indignantly reject his religion, his wife goes crazy with the heat, his small son dies of blackwater fever, and as the tragedy concludes he is hacked to pieces by the only important Niaruna who calls himself a convert...