Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Gautama Buddha's body was cremated, tradition has it, some parts of it failed to burn. Joan of Arc's heart is said to have survived her burning at the stake and been thrown into the Seine. When Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned off Italy in 1822, three literary friends -Lord Byron, Edward John Trelawny and Leigh Hunt-cremated the corpse on a pyre of driftwood. The job almost done, Trelawny suddenly thrust in his arm and snatched out the heart, which, although fiery hot, was strangely unconsumed. In Oscar Wilde's fairy tale, The Happy Prince...
...Power to Burn. Then, in the early 19th century, the gold and diamond rush tailed off. Minas Gerais sank into backwoods somnolence. Not until the 20th century did the state come alive again. Even then the real surge had to wait until Juscelino Kubitschek, born in the old diamond center of Diamantina, moved into the governor's palace in 1951 in the new capital of Belo Horizonte. "Power and transportation," pledged Kubitschek, and that was only the beginning...
...third (1534-49) was a reformer of sorts who gave his own son and nephews cardinalates, yet also convoked the great Council of Trent. The fourth (1555-59) was an unlamented inquisitor, who boasted: "Even if my own father were a heretic, I would gather the wood to burn him." The fifth (1605-21) was also a rigid doctrinaire, who fought bitterly with the anticlericals of his time...
...shone with dreams of long and lazy days -fish-jumping, hammock-reading, fun-filled days of time to do everything, and no need to do anything at all. But to contemporary boys and girls, summer means something else again. Even for the gold coast types with sports cars to burn, loafing is Out and working...
...Breeze filters with menthol and a "touch" of clove. American Tobacco has brought out menthol Montclair; last week Philip Morris started selling nationally its filter menthol Paxton, which comes in a thin plastic "humidor" case. Launching each new brand costs some $10 million, but most of them seem to burn out quickly nowadays. Among the recent failures: R. J. Reynolds' Brandon, Philip Morris' Commander, American Tobacco's menthol Riviera, Brown & Williamson's Kentucky Kings...