Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season is up to average, lightning will kill some 400 people by October,* burn up about twelve million dollars worth of farm buildings, cause half the oil-tank fires, set forests ablaze across the country, scare millions of picnickers and bathers, and add new legends to already existent vulgar errors...
...Common Man. "America's No. 1 Curmudgeon, or Sour Puss" was born (1874) in Pennsylvania, the second of seven children. "I was raised to dust and sweep and wash dishes and knead dough and baste the beef and turn (and burn) the toast and flip flapjacks. ... I was pinch-hit nursemaid, wood chopper, fire builder and tender, chicken executioner-more useful than ornamental...
Another matter that is being freely mentioned, even in high official quarters, [is] the destruction of "the paper cities of Japan," by aerial bombing. In plain words, this means that we propose to burn to death a countless number of women and children, the aged and the helpless. ... But Americans want no horrible holocausts endlessly to poison the relationships between our countries...
...Last week logging crews (called "Tillamook minstrels"-the charred bark makes them look like a blackface act) were still carrying on their ten-year race to salvage the billions of board feet of timber (see cut) not yet ruined by the insects that always move in after a big burn...
These tanks of the Sixth Armored Division, churning the sands of their California desert training center, are more proof that the U.S., as tankers say, "has armored equipment to burn." Last week U.S. tanks were burned, literally, by Rommel's swift thrust in Tunisia. The U.S., though it had an abundance of tanks at home, had lost a substantial part of its front-line force in Africa. It would take long weeks, and many a tank safely shipped overseas to build that force up again...