Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never seen anything quite this bad, and I[have] watched my own house burn down," Marshsaid.CrimsonAndrew L. WrightA crowd of several hundred bystanders lookon Saturday afternoon as a demolition teamprepares to knock down a five-story apartmentbuilding...
Dogged by respiratory problems, Davis' once assertive, quicksilver trumpet tone flickers and flares like an oxygen-starved flame. On Miles Ahead he sits out long passages, but with trumpeter Wallace Roney backing him up, Davis' pride and defiance burn through as he suddenly leaps into the final chorus, bobbing atop the careening rhythm with a tone that begins as a crackle and winds up pure and delicate as crystal. On the slow-building Solea, he struggles to find himself, then, catching his wind, lets fly a cascade of notes that arc and shimmer with the same brassy authority he wielded...
SOCRATES No! If you're going to make a commitment, you've got to burn your bridges! When I decided to quit the premed track, my mother told me to take the MCAT just in case I change my mind. I even registered for it. But I didn't take it because taking it would've meant that I wasn't sure about my commitment to going into politics...
...most desperate moments of his life, a severely burned Sumner Redstone saved himself by clinging to a window ledge with his right handand counting to 10 over and over again as flames swept through his room in a Boston hotel fire. "My legs were burned to my arteries," he recalls. "I got to a window, and it wouldn't open. I got to another one and hung by my hands. It seemed like a lifetime." Despite 60 hours of burn surgery, doctors doubted that Redstone would ever walk again. His tendons were destroyed, his little finger partly amputated...
...collective mindset of the modern intelligentsia, Beavis and Butt-head are perceived as leaders of a rival morality. Yet, in an exclusive Rolling Stone interview, Butt-head rejects the very idea of collective morality--instead, he remains true to his own bawdy brand of heroic individualism. "I like to burn stuff," Butt-head explains, "but that doesn't mean you have to. Huh-huh. Huh-huh. It would be cool if you did, though." As Beavis and Butt-head represent the voice of a new generation, their appeal is self-evident. They pass judgement on all they witness with total...