Word: burnting
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University employees, armed with flashlights, gathered in the darkened stairwell to trace burnt out electrical fixtures and sadly contemplate plaster falling from the hallway ceilings. They vowed that University officials would uncover the culprit or take disciplinary action against the whole entry...
...other times, avid for the show that would lift it, not by illusion but by legitimate right, into a symbolic reminder of its own worth. As they waited, chaff flew. When black smoke poured from the palace chimney, a wit said: "Blimey, now they've gone an' burnt the blinkin' soup...
...work might imagine him as an angry, half-blind, stammeringly intense young giant, paint-spattered from head to foot. Murky smears sparked with gobs and drippings of candy-bright color, his huge, swirling landscapes, seascapes and reeling street scenes all look as if they are on fire and half burnt-out already. The panting energy in Yeats's art, and his violent disregard for nature, are impressive and repulsive as well. They are not easy to connect with the wistful-eyed, closemouthed little Dubliner he really is, and with the neat, sweet drawings of Irish scenes he used...
...Colorado Historical Society settled an old controversy over the proper way to make a pioneer drink variously known as "pizen," "popskull" and "panther milk." The recipe: "To a five-gallon keg of Taos Lightning [whiskey] add a one-pound plug of chopped chewing tobacco, two pounds of burnt dried peaches and 20 charges of gunpowder; stir the mixture well and drink...
Charlottesville firemen no longer answer the alarm at the University; they have been burnt by the student body once too often. Two years ago the fire department allied with the municipal police fought a pitched battle with the Virginia boys and the state troopers. Routed at the end, the firefighters lost their clothing and trucks to a rioting band of fraternity men after responding to a false signal. Hook and ladder in nearby Crozet, more intrepid than the Charlottesville smoke eaters, can still be summoned in an emergency...