Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...determined shooters. True, Guards Doug Collins and Henry Bibby were willing to pass the ball, and, of course, Philly had the splendid Julius Erving, the All-Stratosphere Dr. J, who was difficult to fault even on a rare bad night. Taken all together, the 76ers had talent to burn-and they...
...graves, "bowed and placed a bundle of pine twigs" on the tomb. Not mentioned in the People's Daily was Mao's remark: "I hated Confucius from the age of eight. There was a Confucian temple in the village and I wanted nothing more than to burn it to the ground...
While the Democrats burn, the Republicans fiddle
...austerity." Barre, for his part, ripped into Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, whose Common Program with the Communists he likened to Dr. Faust's pact with the devil. Said Barre in the city of Caen: "Monsieur Mitterrand has played with fire, and now he is beginning to burn. He signed a pact, as Faust did, to regain his youth. Now the day of reckoning has arrived...
...SEEMS THAT in their final days, empires begin to turn faster and faster, careening along and over everything. As the fuses blow and the fires of decadence burn brighter and brighter they whip apart, spewing people and culture everywhere. Then the barbarians--or the Richard Nixons--ride into town. Perhaps future historians will chart the beginning of the fall of the American Imperium as that frenzied year of Tet and Chicago, 1968. Or maybe they will see it as our coming of age--in the highlands and paddies of Indochina the distinctions of war blurred into My Lai Four...