Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote for Duplessis was a vote for a Quebec-first policy. But it was not a vote to burn all bridges between Quebec and the rest of Canada. The French Canadians rejected the appeal of the men who would like to make Quebec a second Eire. These extreme nationalists of the Bloc Populaire elected only four members...
...Germany. But Hitler's envoy, wily Franz von Papen, instead of racing for Berlin, canceled a vacation, hotfooted to Ankara for a last-minute, bootless talk with Turkey's Premier and Foreign Minister, Sükrü Saracoglu. This move also gave Papen a chance to burn some papers, pack his bags...
...layers of clothing. Before the end of his first year he is forced to learn to sit stiffly on his haunches. Other restraints result from the flimsy construction of Japanese houses: when a baby begins to crawl, he is held back lest he butt through the paper walls or burn himself in the charcoal fire...
Consequently, four days before the convention opened the race seemed wide-open, and the one-day booms blossomed in methodical order: for Barkley, Douglas, Byrnes and Speaker Sam Ray burn. The Byrnes boom got farthest first and then fell flattest. The first of many intimate and important dinners in Chicago ended Byrnes's candidacy...
...Vancouver Daily Province reported that "fires burn day and night" on the dump piles at Dawson Creek, B.C. A farmer said that he had seen more than 100 good stoves thrown on one dump. A woman in Whitehorse wrote to her father: "I saw ... a barracks between two and three city blocks long, packed with winter clothes . . . blankets . . . chairs. ... So help me God, they stacked them up, poured gasoline over them, set them on fire...