prairie fire

Noun

Meaning

an uncontrolled fire in a grassy area

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prairie-fire

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It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener's watering pot. Judah P. Benjamin

Else von Freytag-Loringhoven is the first Dadaiste in New York and [...] the Little Review has discovered her. This movement should capture American like a prairie fire. Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation. Tim Pawlenty

According to “Prairie Fire”, young people are channeled, coerced, misled, miseducated, misused in the school setting. Source: Internet

However, the event turned sour when Hispanic and Black groups accused the Weather Underground and the Prairie Fire Committee of limiting their roles in racial issues. Source: Internet

Prairie Fire urged people to never "dissociate mass struggle from revolutionary violence". Source: Internet

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