Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chung's resourceful Physicist David Hsiung set up the only power plant within hundreds of miles by coaxing the engine of an old Studebaker bus to burn charcoal, a Diesel engine to run on walnut oil. The biology department began crossbreeding different varieties of Yunnan ducks to get a new, improved strain. While the college faculty was considering the best way to spread the Christian message in Hsichow (no missionary had ever worked there), a student quite independently set the ball rolling by converting two local schoolteachers. Hua Chung had no caps & gowns for its graduating class last July...
...After all this was over, didn't you burn with righteous indignation? Didn't every fibre of your being vibrate with rage? How did you react to the horror, the heinousness, the chicanery and the utter fraud that was done, Mr. Stoebling...
...ally, will be shipped to Germany. Sharing the honor of Axis membership, Rumanians were also asked to share its fasting-three meatless meals weekly and practically no butter as large quantities were consigned to the butter-starved Reich. Germans guarding the Ploesti oil field saw three wells burn, firmly declared the fires were accidental, not sabotage...
...King in Rumanian with a splendid British accent. But his health had gone, his retirement was long overdue, and the driving out of Carol left him at 58 broken and bitter. Last week he scurried about trying to avert a break in British-Rumanian relations long enough to burn his Legation's secret papers, and to insure the safety of six British oil executives whom the Rumanians had arrested, suspecting sabotage. His only triumph-and since he likes Rumania even this one made him sad-was being able to announce to the Bucharest Foreign Office that Britain, like...
...must be reunited, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom of Europe until they become the veritable beacons of its salvation...