Word: arsonist
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...second fire, which Ready has termed definitely the "work of an arsonist," is still under investigation by Cambridge officials and the State Fire Marshall's office. But Ready stated that investigation proved that the student who was seen at the first blaze could not have started the fire...
Captain of Detectives Patrick F. Ready confirmed last night that the Claverly blazes were caused by an arsonist. "There is no doubt about it," Ready said...
Tuesday night's fire in Cleverly Hall was called the work of an arsonist by Cambridge Police and Fire Department officials yesterday. Although the cause of the blaze is still of "undetermined origin," investigators revealed that they had several suspects in mind and are now seeking to link the recent blaze to Saturday night's $65,000 conflagration...
...allies will have to handle on a local, not a global, basis. Korea brought home to the U.S. the realization that in the long run it could not build enough fire engines to cope with all the brush fires world Communism could start; eventually, the arsonist's ability to start fires had to be ended or limited at the source. This, in turn, meant that containment as a U.S. policy was dead and had been replaced by an intention to roll back the power of world Communism...
...torpedo Brien McMahon and William Benton. But south and west, where voters may have discounted a good part of what McCarthy said, they nevertheless decided that where there was so much smoke there must be some fire. (The Democrats had argued that so much smoke only indicated an arsonist.) In California, victorious Senator Richard Nixon, who had routed the Democrats' left-leaning Helen Gahagan Douglas, confidently announced: "My victory is a mandate from the people of California for some changes in the State Department...