Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parent told me her daughter had come homecrying after a speaker at an assembly had told herthat if she wasn't Christian, she'd burn in hell,"he said...
...president-elect. I have a copy of this cartoon (which was reprinted in The Boston Globe) taped to the wall next to my drawing board in the vain hope that it will provide me with a little help, a bit of direction for the next time I have to burn the midnight oil and draw Bill...
Years of cajoling and lecturing had done no good. In a society where white- collar workers burn the midnight oil as a matter of routine, tougher action was needed. So henceforward, Nippon Steel will switch off the electricity at its Tokyo headquarters at 10 p.m., forcing the workaholics among its 3,300 employees to suspend work and go home. Those who try to make up for the lost hours on Sunday will find the doors locked...
...warrior-wooer impaled on the cross of his love; he must track his obsession until he is released from it. His misery gives him mesmeric mastery. The wretched Renfield (Tom Waits -- terrific) bays to do Dracula's bidding. Flowers wilt at the count's passage, and maidens burn at his touch. A young woman's tears turn to pearls in his hand...
Perhaps the most shocking thing about Pearl Harbor's pollution is that it is duplicated at hundreds of military installations around the country. Stick a shovel into the ground at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground north of Baltimore, Maryland, and the soil begins to burn with phosphorous waste from decades of manufacturing military flares. A firing range the size of Manhattan at the Army's Jefferson Proving Ground in southeastern Indiana is littered with 1.5 million unexploded artillery shells; officials are torn between footing a $6 billion cleanup bill and simply padlocking the place and throwing away...