Word: burnes
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...least 2,000abused children, most under the age of four, die each year, which is more than die in car accidents, house fires, falls or drownings. Another 160,000 are either permanently disabled or seriously injured. Physical harm is most often inflicted by male caretakers who beat, suffocate or burn a young child when enraged or stressed. Mothers are more frequentlyguilty of severe neglectrather than actual physical abuse...
Plant, 46, repeatedly joked with the audience, pointing the microphone towards the crowd and blowing kisses towards young women in the balcony. "This is our last stop before we take a couple weeks off," Plant told the crowd. "So we've got nothing to lose if we burn the place to the ground...
...them believes they have experienced a miracle at some time in their lives and were forever changed by it. Roulston was electrocuted on July 29, 1985. "I took 600 amps of 575 volts--it takes 0.15 amps to kill you," he recalls. "I spent a long time in a burn unit. But I survived, the way sometimes people survive being hit by lightning. So now I understand about people who would like a miracle in their life to 'show me that God exists...
...position of power seems to have bred some abuse. Although he often served as a champion of social outcasts at the school, in Egawa's account he was also a bully. An ex-teacher recalled that, when chastised, he threatened to burn down the dormitory, then quibbled that he could not be punished for just saying something. One classmate is said to have suffered a broken eardrum at his hands, and another reportedly told him in high school, after he had repeatedly failed to win any class office, "You are good to take care of people, but we are still...
California's troubles are all entangled: lots of rain means lusher growth, which, if a dry season follows, means more tinder to burn. If the fires torch the hillsides, there's nothing left to hold the mountains together, so when the rains return, the mud slides are worse. And when earthquakes come, the spongy ground can turn to pudding, and a house quivering on top sinks to the bottom of the bowl...