Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...respectfully suggest that Father and Mrs. Duryea named their son Paul for St. Paul, who said, "It is better to marry than to burn...
...launched that something had gone wrong. The heavy cylindrical craft, intended as the hub of a space station, reached an orbit of only 140 by 130 miles. That meant that it was passing through the outer fringes of the atmosphere, which would slow it down and cause it to burn up in a plunge back toward earth within a few weeks...
Obviously this is not hot-and-breathless, burn-baby-burn writing. Unlike apocalyptic novelists, Gaines does not make the revolution happen by surreal rhetoric. He simply watches, a patient artist, a patient man, and it happens for him. When Jane, disobedient at last, walks past her plantation owner to take part in a demonstration, a code goes crack, as surely, as naturally as a root pushing up through concrete. · Melvin Maddocks
...earth above, they are low, are warm and welcome to the hand; the walls are earth and carry her warmth and rhythm fireplaces, for efficiency, curve the corners of the room, their openings are the most wonderful of parabolas, three pinon logs leaning in on each other, the tops burn, and they lean farther and farther until they touch, and are, ashes, they give warmth for the soul and body, and the smell of the land that rose through hands into the house around, it is a land of the mind and all of the infinites of wonder it invites...
...Burn down your cities and leave our farms," William Jennings Bryan once said, "and your cities will spring up again as if by magic, but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." Amid tales of urban blight, the U.S. may find solace in the enduring, seemingly endless reach of its fecund farmland. The nation is still sustained by the richest bounty of produce on earth, and it is sowing time again. TIME Correspondent Frank Merrick last week visited Erv Walters' farm in northern Illinois. His report...