Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daily, 10,000 tons of chemical compounds-hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides-pour from 3.5 million exhaust pipes. When there is no breeze, and the exhaust-laden air is trapped in the mountain-rimmed Los Angeles basin, the bright Southern California sunshine, which could be expected to burn off a simple, old-fashioned fog, goes to work on the invisible gases until a giant photochemical reaction takes place. The pallid, evil-smelling vapor that results is known as smog...
...Maniema province, the government holds control by a hair, and could be upset at any time. The two battalions that General Mobutu has committed in Kivu are the last remaining government troops available for emergency duty. If the flame of revolt erupts anywhere else, it will simply have to burn itself out-or else spread across the whole country...
...pressing for civil rights with excessive zeal. He then applied for mission service in Kenya, and instead was made administrative assistant in a mostly Negro parish in Compton, an industrial suburb of Los Angeles. Impressed by his parishioners' passionate concern for equality, Father Du Bay did a slow burn. One morning fortnight ago, he said Mass, then went to the Greater Los Angeles Press Club and loosed his thunderbolt against the cardinal. He spent the rest of the day, heart in mouth, teaching some of the parish kids how to play a game called "Steal the Bacon...
...would happen to the solar system if half of the universe disappeared? From Newton to Einstein, most experts have agreed that nothing much would happen except that the sky would have fewer stars. But now British Cosmologist Fred Hoyle says that the sun would shine 100 times brighter and burn the earth to a crisp...
...modern Barcelona, the feud of two passionate gypsy clans, the Tarantos and the Zorongos, provides a turbulent prologue to the first meeting of young Rafael and Juana at a wedding feast. Dark eyes burn, hands slap out flamenco rhythm, bare feet pound the golden dust: thus Director Rovira-Beleta wordlessly launches a tale of love at first sight with an excitement that Shakespeare himself might envy. Later he tries too many tricky variations on the familiar story line, occasionally becoming somewhat incoherent, but his feel for Spanish gypsy folkways never falters. The tragedy mounts while men, women and children dance...