Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squeeze was on. Without gasoline to burn, the U.S. was getting back on to an older method of locomotion: shanks' mare. In 17 States the gas rationing had already sharply changed the lives of 8,500,000 motorists and the uncounted millions who rode with them. After July 1 the meager rations would probably be made more meager. And some time after July 1 the entire nation would go on rations. The reason was one word: rubber...
Summoned to Washington in 1939, he went reluctantly to an interview with Franklin Roosevelt, who took a shine to him at once. When someone mentioned casually that Smith would have to burn a lot of bridges in Michigan before he could take a Washington job, the President handed Smith a box of matches, told him to hurry back...
...wowser is human. The Australian slang dictionary defines him (or her) as "a puritanical enthusiast, a bluestocking, a drab-souled Philistine haunted by the mockery of others." What the U.S. soldiers and their Empire mates have to say about him would burn holes in a postman's sack...
...only the Yard's early strollers who could shout "Let it burn," since this second visit of the year by the local fire brigade came well before 9 o'clock. A short circuit in a fuse box had caused only a small blaze, but the smoke, which was heavy enough to fill the basement, prompted a janitor to call out the fire fighters...
...were bombed tonight, the people of the city would not know what to do. . . . There would be hysterical people, people who would actually die from fear, standing up. . . . Very few people burn to death. They are scared to death...