Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was a flaw in this picture, it was hard to see it from Buenos Aires. Shops were full of goods rationed in other countries; streets were thronged with cars despite gasoline rationing and a rubber shortage; there were 2,000,000 tons of wheat to burn as fuel and full granaries in prospect for the end of the harvest season...
Studying his hillside corn, Farmer Stiles found that a yellow burn from the dry ground was creeping up the stalks. In his bottomland the stalks stood straighter and greener, but they were far too short for August corn...
...other hand they might like to know how we mastered (?) the art of looking military while staggering through Cambridge beneath our blue book bags, how we burn out our lamps making changes that will all be changed next month...
Said the Old Fisherman, back home this week at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C.: "This is the first, tan I've had this summer. I thought I might burn on an outing like this...
Manolis Batouvas is about 50 years old. He is thin almost to the point of emaciation, but his body is hard, and his jet-black eyes, set in a hawklike, bronzed face, burn with the fierceness that is characteristic of all the Cretan guerrillas. Batouvas cannot be more than 5 ft. 6, and he walks like a spraddled duck. His khaki shorts are too big for him, flapping in the mountain winds, and his khaki shirt emerges at several places from his pants. He is nobody's ideal of a hero. In fact, before the Germans invaded Crete, Batouvas...