Word: burnting
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When the foreigners left Bonampak, the gentle Lacandones set fire to the huts the intruders had lived in. They hoped that a burnt offering would appease their gods...
Starting from there, police and the FBI moved fast. Two clues turned up: I) the burnt stock of a shotgun, jammed in the flue of a Yellow Cab office in Greenville; 2) blood-stained seat cushions from a taxi. Drivers were rounded up, began to talk, implicated still more...
...informal survey shows that the present system chops an average four and one-half hours out of students' weekday study schedules and that in many cases their grades are bearing the burnt of the loss. Overtaxed facilities throughout the college, the difficult conversion from high school to college studies, and the general problems encountered in any change of schools, all cause her new student sufficient worry without the Athletic Department claiming three afternoons out of his already busy week...
...fascists, fascists," the squatters yelled. The horses, six abreast, ploughed through the crowd up to the squat downs. Defeated, inflamed and humiliated, they scrambled backwards. One or two aimed blows at the horses' heads. Some tried pushing cigarets into horseflesh. For a moment there was a whiff of burnt hair. The horses did not flinch. The bus slowly ground its way through, followed by lesser vehicles. A man sat down again in the road, yelling: "Come on, you yellow-livered bastards, sit down!" But no one joined...
...second best. The attitude of her more experienced fellow workers has probably been best expressed by Veteran Barrymore. After a short rehearsal one day with Actress O'Brien. 'Barrymore, a notorious scene grabber himself, was heard to mutter : "Two hundred years ago, they'd have burnt her as a witch...