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Word: burnes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should emphasize that it's a fine sauce, with a touch of burn and two touches of subtelty. If it were an orchestra, though, I'd tell this sauce to add some drums and trumpets. I imagine ginger and garlic as the culinary instruments. I would try to retain the expert, greaseless stir-frying...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: The Painted Dish | 1/15/1988 | See Source »

Other former freshmen recall roommate problems of a very different kind. My roommate "tried to burn down the dorm," a former Matthews resident recall. "He was wacko...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Suites For Strangers | 12/17/1987 | See Source »

...decided on the "Pit Bull" defense. Like pit bulls, the Harvard defenders gave it their all. Like pit bulls, they struck fear into the hearts of the Yale offense, making it burn timeouts. Like pit bulls, they beat up on the Bulldogs...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Contemplating Games and The Game | 11/24/1987 | See Source »

Thousands of Americans are now caught up in harvesting empties for profit. Charities, civic clubs and groups like the Boy Scouts regularly go at it. Since March, Dade County, Fla., fire fighters have picked enough cans to raise $4,990 for a burn center at James M. Jackson Memorial Hospital. On Chicago's South Side, some 20 neighborhood can pickers process more than 12,000 tons of scrap paper and metal each year at the Resource Center, one of the nation's largest nonprofit recycling operations. Ken Dunn, founder of the center, sees the collectors as successful entrepreneurs. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Give Me Your Wretched Refuse | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...father and in the two brother's building of a live funeral pyre for their mother, who abandoned them, and her live-in lover. The two watch the blaze in wonderment from a backyard ditch, as children see a Christmas tree light up and an insect burn in the glare of a magnifying glass...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Blood Brothers | 11/17/1987 | See Source »

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