Word: torches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before they stopped, China's woes had multiplied. The enemy had taken the base at Tushan, but before he did, more of China's precious supplies went up in smoke and flame. Ahead of the Jap spearhead, U.S. engineers set the torch to the base's munitions dumps. Thousands upon thousands of rounds of ammunition and fighting equipment of all kinds, stored up with infinite pain from the trickle of supply across the Hump from India, were blasted to destruction in a 48-hour holocaust...
Professor Jaeger urges educators to "keep the torch burning," and "keep alive something that will never belong to the past." In answer to those who look upon ancient history and classical languages as dead, Jaeger defines history as "the knowledge of that which is permanently alive...
...flamethrower to kill weeds. Running along the ground between rows, this torch-like apparatus, while burning off weeds, left the thicker cotton stems unharmed...
Scorched City. Kweilin, the city of 300 hills, was put to the torch. All but a few aged standpatters and lost children had fled three weeks earlier; its ring of air bases had been burned and blasted (TIME, Sept. 25). Now the Lo-chun-she Hotel, famous for its roast chicken and Peking duck, was gutted by flames; so were stores, cinemas, offices and factories...
Vicious Circle. In Peoria, Ill., a frustrated burglar gave up after trying four times to crack a safe with a welding torch that promptly sealed up each hole that it melted open...