Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...devoted himself, in Marius' phrase, to building "a wall of pages" to defend his faith in works like A Dialogue Concerning Heresies. He loathed the emerging Luther so profoundly that his theological arguments collapsed into scatological abuse. When his treatises failed to halt the Reformation, More took to burning the treatises of his enemies, and when book burning failed, he turned to body burning, exulting in the fires at the stake that carried Protestant heretics to hell "where the wretches burn forever...
...Bhopal plant had two safety devices that would operate automatically in case a tank ruptured. The first was a scrubber that would neutralize the highly reactive gas by treating it with caustic soda. If the scrubber failed to do the job, another mechanism would ignite the gas and burn it off in the air harmlessly before it could do much damage...
...plant forever. It's something we've grown to accept. We have been so used to hearing the sirens at the plant that they have sort of lulled us to sleep. A lot of times things get out in the air around here, and our eyes burn and our throats get scratchy. But we never thought they were making anything so deadly as that stuff...
...fuel contained an experimental anti-misting additive, years in development, that was supposed to prevent escaping fuel from forming a cloud of mist and then igniting into a deadly fireball. The test had been set up so that fuel would spill and be given a good chance to burn: the wings were shredded by 400-lb. blades that protruded from the Mojave Desert like giant can openers, and the landing surface was coarse gravel meant to throw off sparks as the plane slid along. Nevertheless, researchers were betting against the big fires that charred most of the plane and burned...
WHEN INDIAN CITIES began to burn a couple of weeks ago, a bloodbath appeared inevitable. National reaction to Indira Gandhi's murder seemed to ignite a textbook Third World crisis, complete with factional strife, religious fanaticism, and widespread, crushing poverty...