Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Staggers at Six. At four, Richard Wright tried to burn down the house in which his grandmother lay ill. Restless at being kept indoors, he built up a fire with broomstraws, touched off the window curtains, hid under the house when the fire got out of control. His frantic parents thought he was inside, were so relieved and angry when they found him unhurt that they whipped him until he lost consciousness...
...installed demolition charges in large buildings. Flimsy warehouses had been stocked with drums of gasoline. Forty-eight hours after U.S. forces entered northern Manila. Jap demolition engineers pressed the buttons. Electrically connected charges went off in series. The main business district-eight blocks of the Calle Escolta-began to burn. There was no water pressure to fight the fires. Many Filipinos looked on apathetically, made no move to help U.S. soldiers tackling the hopeless...
Gift-item wholesalers, who thrive in times of famine, were the only happy men. They took orders as they came, but made no delivery promises. The quality of some of the items spoke sadly for U.S. taste, and proved again that dollars often burn hottest in unfamiliar pockets. Said one plump buyer, clutching a dismal little religious diorama made of shells and priced to retail at $6: "Aren't they awful? But they'll sell." Other bestsellers...
...fire, hitting the dirt when shells exploded 20 yards away and bullets cut her clothing. The information she got to headquarters was invaluable. There were only 1,000 Union troops in Front Royal itself. Assaulted, they lost $300,000 worth of stores they did not have time to burn, also failed to burn the bridge over the Shenandoah. The road to Washington was open, and only the delay of the Confederate cavalry saved Banks's army...
...showed them, in the President's study, a full-length portrait of herself, done by a man who had seen her just twice?at parties, years ago. Mrs Roosevelt, who never poses for portraits, said the painting was so extremely pretty she disliked it, added: "I would like to burn it some day, and I probably shall...