Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haven't gone to another counter yet, I snarl apologetically and try reaching over her to get what I want. Sometimes I think I could run out into the street crying "Help me please I'm on fire!" and people would just stand there watching me burn, saying "Where are you from...
Leading the way in base thievery this season is junior second baseman Bob Kay, last year's team leader. Now six-of-eight on the basepaths. Kay is just off the pace he needs to break Howard Burn's single-season record of 34 (set way back...
...each denying the other's nature. "I wish and ask that our rulers who have Jewish subjects exercise a sharp mercy toward these wretched people," wrote Luther in 1543. "They must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in, proceeds without mercy to cut, saw and burn flesh, veins, bone and marrow." His harsh prescription was an unwitting forecast of the horror that was to come...
...Jesuits and Indians in 17th century North America, a story of hardship, faith and incompatibility. The Algonquin and Huron of what is now Canada regarded the priests as black-robed sorcerers overly concerned with death and water magic. The French missionaries saw "les Sauvages" as beastly innocents fated to burn in hell if they escaped baptism. Heaven was a hard sell because the Indians had no strong ideas about souls and paradise. As one of Moore's intractable red men puts it, "It is because you Normans are deaf and blind that you think this world is a world...
...wavelength. The light from a lamp, in contrast, is a fuzzy discharge wiggling at different wavelengths and scattering in every direction. Laser beams travel at the speed of light (not surprising: they are light, though not always visible) and can be focused over thousands of miles of space to burn a hole in the skin of a Soviet missile, destroying its guidance mechanism and deactivating its warheads...