Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CAMBRIDGE SAVINGS BANK'S new clock is doing just fine, thank you. It's the neighbors that are having problems. At night, the monolithic red sign below it now reads "GE Savings Bank." A change in ownership? More like burn out. It happens a lot around here...
...that some might say he has success on the brain. "I can think of things in life more important than being in the Wall Street Journal," he said, "but I could probably count them on my left hand." It wasn't always this way. An admitted high school "burn-out," this social psych concentrator from Winthrop House says he squandered his first two years at Harvard. After a junior year abroad in London, he returned to tackle his classes with a new vigor. Nonetheless, finding a job still held little interest...
...around me for at least a semester. Headlines would range from, "Psycho Senior Holds Kiosk Roast" to "Rodriguez protests, 'I'm Still Not Sorry!" to "Hewitt Visits Harvard in Anti-Arson Platform." Editorial letters that either give shame to my very existence or staunchly fight for my rights to burn would run nonstop. Gradually, a cult following would be built around me. The members would sing songs of peace outside the Ad Board office as the people inside groaned and wished they had never volunteered for such a thankless position...
...will bump along toward the bogus destination called "closure." The two parties will resume their Balkan comity; Republicans may even learn not to think "liar" every time the President speaks. And after my indignation stops screaming, perhaps I can learn to be civil as well. My fury will burn itself down to coals and ashes. But thanks to Bill Clinton, something in public life seems changed--and something else permanently lost...
...freighter New Carissa after the U.S. Navy detonated explosives and napalm-spiked gasoline in its hull. The ship had run aground off the Oregon coast and storm-whipped waves had torn into it, threatening an environmental disaster if all 400,000 gallons of oil within leaked. The daring "controlled burn" was intended to consume 90% of the fuel in 24 hours. The maneuver seemed to work: the burning boat broke in two the next day, but only a fraction of the oil contaminated the beaches...