Word: tinder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There had been no rain for a month and the woods were tinder-dry. But promising-looking clouds were drifting over the great forest fire north of Sudbury, Ont. Kenneth G. Pettit, Canadian government meteorologist, hoped they were "supercooled" (well below freezing temperature). If so, he might precipitate them artificially...
...GLENN E. TINDER...
More than 20,000 British troops in maroon berets clamped a cordon around Tel-Aviv, flower of Zionism, while patrol boats sealed the harbor. The all-Jewish population of 200,000 was put tinder a 22-hour curfew. Then the troops moved in with tanks and armored cars, and searched every house, every person for evidence of terrorist activity. In Tel-Aviv hospitals, army doctors X-rayed plaster casts to make sure their wearers were not faking...
Most race track barns are tinder dry. The one housing Elizabeth Arden Graham's horses at Arlington Park, near Chicago, was no exception. Flames, from a fire caused by an unwatched electric heater, licked over the loose straw bedding and lapped at wooden partitions. A Negro groom threw a single bucket of water, saw that it was futile and made a beeline to save the horses...
...There were three churches, a two-story wooden hotel, a nine-hole golf course on a slag fill in Granby Bay. But mounting costs shut down the mine in 1935, and Anyox shut up shop, too. Only a few watchmen remained. When lightning in 1942 fired the "tinder-dry slopes behind Anyox and roared down on the deserted town, most of its weathered buildings went up in flames...