Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burnt Child. In Philadelphia, Clarence J. Malehorn, summoned to testify before a federal grand jury investigating gambling, explained why he did not want to answer several questions: the women on the jury could not be trusted to keep his testimony secret...
Ground was first broken for the dormitory in December '47. Almost two years of construction had John Farwell Moors' gift to Radcliffe on the verge of completion, when a fire of unknown origin burnt out an entire wing of the first floor last September 16. The girls moved in anyway, while repairs continued through Thanksgiving...
...burnt roses leave...
...burglary took place at the Haynes' home sometime between December 11 and 18 when the family was away. According to police, the presence of burnt matches beneath a broken storm window indicated a night entry...
Karnol's strictly limited palette contained only one dull "earth" color, burnt sienna. The others, which he blended at will into a rainbow of subtle hues, were lead white, cadmium red and yellow, emerald green, ultramarine blue "and, very very seldom, a little black." He applied his colors to canvas with a feather-soft touch that was also precise enough to require hardly any preliminary drawing. Though some of the canvases had been in his studio for years, and had been worked over again & again, they all looked ripe and bright as peaches with the bloom intact...