Word: burning
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...struck it and held it out. I put the outside of my left forearm directly over the flame. As the fire burned through my flesh and melted it back into a blackened depression, a look of horror came over Tex. The match burned down and scorched his fingers before he dropped it. He looked at the burn unbelievingly, then looked ill, got up, and left...
...group of people appearing to be supporters of John Francis attended the "Gay Awareness" forum on Sunday April 13, and sat together in a back corner of the hall. Some carried signs bearing such slogans as "Anita is right--Gays will burn in hell" and "Go back into your closets;" some booed and hissed when panelists urged tolerance of gay people...
Younger recruits burn with zeal to destroy the Zionist enemy, but some of the leaders speak warily about the dubious rewards of a life of making terrorist war. Yasser Arafat's brother Fathi, a doctor who heads the Palestinian Red Crescent (equivalent of the Red Cross), remarks almost whimsically: "I think the world is divided into four classes: first, second, third and Palestinians. All the governments have decided this. Maybe there should be a zoo for us. You know, with a sign reading HERE IS A TERRORIST...
...from its undersea wells. Unless the terrorists win the release of all political prisoners in Europeplus ?57 millionthey will waste the $400 million platform and set fire to the huge gushers of oil under the so-called Samson rig. The flames, engulfing other oilfields, will burn across the North Sea, destroying the economy of Europe for the rest of the century. As the P.F.L.P. leader crows, "It will be in our power . . . to create a disaster unparalleled in history...
There are a few dates in any lifetime that burn their way into the brain, that remain etched in the memory like the carving on a gravestone. Oct. 29, 1929; Dec. 7, 1941; May 22, 1980. A day that will live in infamy, a day of shame. On that day, if all goes as expected, baseball will cease, the summer rites indefinitely suspended while the rich and the super-rich, the players and the owners, refight battles won and lost over the last decade...