Word: tinder
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...Blaze. The gathering of all this ideological tinder had been made plain to all the world for weeks, but who would start the blaze, and when, and who would be burned, was something no man outside the Kremlin could foresee...
...Country Boy." When McKay was governor of Oregon-his biggest job before coming to Washington with Ike-two of the toughest decisions he faced were whether to proclaim daylight time (thus annoying farmers) and whether to ban hunting when forests were tinder-dry (thus annoying Oregon's legions of deerslayers). In Washington McKay's horizons have enlarged considerably, without affecting the size of his hat. As Interior Secretary, he is the nation's biggest landlord, greatest giver of light and water, master of forest and range, controller of minerals and oil, boss of 56,000 people...
...dead of a bright white winter's night, the hot young sparks fly off to town to steal some girls of tinder age. Six screams later, their sleigh is racing back to the farm with a baggage of "Sobbin' Women" aboard and a tumult of raging fathers behind. The brothers shout down an avalanche of snow behind them, blocking pursuit until spring, and barrel away home to a long winter's courtship...
...tiny shack was afire. Moments later the entire house was ablaze. As neighbors tried to put out the fire, a brisk wind whipped the flames against the houses next door, and soon they too were burning. On the fire roared for twelve hours, through block after block of tinder-like huts, cutting a swath a mile and a half long and half a mile wide through the refugee-packed city. The cost in casualties: three dead, scores injured, 2,800 buildings destroyed and more than 28,000 made homeless...
...damp countryside. Transplanted to the U.S., the sport has become even sportier-for the fox-as was demonstrated last week at Fort Campbell, Ky., where some 700 hunters and 300 hounds gathered for the 60th National Fox Hunters' Association Field Trials. The 100,000-acre military reservation was tinder-dry with just 3 in. of rain since June; though both red and grey fox abounded, the U.S.'s top hounds had a terrible time following the trail...