Word: cinder
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Even when drunk one day last summer he entered an AAU meet two-mile on the spur of the moment to see what he could do. Powlison, running barefoot on a cinder track in 90-degree heat, led for a mile before dropping...
...fate of England. The word island recurs: England shorn of empire, reduced to her physical boundaries, but with names and deeds of the past intoned like a faint requiem of glory-Newton, and Sir Walter Raleigh and the discovery of penicillin. The sceptered isle has become a gleamless cinder on the tides of history...
When the firemen arrived, they were struck by an unusual silence. Only a few flames could be seen flickering through the roof of the fortress-like, cinder-block building, and the men assumed that it was a minor fire. But when they pried open an emergency exit at Le Cinq-Sept, a popular dance hall for youths in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont near Grenoble, two of the firemen fainted. Bodies were stacked before them in ghastly contortions of agony. Fists were literally fried against the locked door. Impressions of hands, arms and heads were fused into the cement wall. Almost...
...Storm, a new rock group from Paris. "I admit that the turnstiles ultimately made the club a sort of prison," said Gilbert Bas, 26, a co-owner of the Cinq-Sept, "but we had to keep out the gate-crashers." By locking the doors, the owners created a cinder-block oven...
...people are proud of their self-sufficiency. Residents boast that their town is the only one in Milwaukee County that has not joined the metropolitan sanitary district. When some boating enthusiasts formed the South Milwaukee Yacht Club, the members pitched in themselves to build a one-story, cinder-block clubhouse and a breakwater that juts into Lake Michigan. The members pay dues of only $36.50 a year and mostly operate small powerboats, but a few have 40-ft. yachts. "We're self-contained," explains Charles Webb, 29, a trailer mechanic. "We don't have to worry about...