Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lost, and he thought of himself as a | force with power over us. I said the war was not my fault. I had no sons fighting against the Serbs. But he screamed 'Be silent, Balija ((a pejorative term for Muslims))! I won't waste bullets shooting you. I'll burn you and blow up your house. I tell you straight to your eyes, I'll kill...
Consider, for example, what happened to me andmy friend John G. Short '70 during the 1968 Dowsit-in. A recruiter had come to campus from DowChemical, the company that made napalm, analuminum soap made of various fatty acids which,when dropped from planes in wartime, wouldsometimes burn the backs off children. Dow bacamea symbol of greedy corporate investment in the warin Southeast Asia...
Playwrights tend to burn out young, so the mere fact that Arthur Miller, 78, opened a new drama on Broadway last week, 50 years after his debut, is noteworthy. Even better, the play is good -- complex, a little mysterious, full of arresting incident, grippingly played. The bad news is that there is so little audience for serious work that its survival is, in the producer's words, "week to week." Only two new plays have had much of a run on Broadway this season, Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor and the second half of Tony Kushner...
...long and distinguished career, he wrote six books and published almost 200 articles in medical journals. A Harvard news release described him as skilled teacher and an expert in experimental and surgical endocrinology, psychosomatic sickness, the treatment of burn victims and breast disease...
Some of those medical thoughts included treatments for burn patients in the 1940s. The method that he and the MGH staff developed became the norm for U.S. military treatment of burns...