Word: arsonist
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...house is on fire, it's not the time todetermine who's the arsonist," Jackson said. "Thatis the time to get the inhabitants to a safe placeand to get the extinguisher. The president needsto give a sense of collective leadership, and thatdid not happen...
...evacuation, it said, had actually begun a month earlier, with several thousand people leaving each week. The army had not been involved; as for the fire that consumed shelters, officials variously described it as an accident, a precaution against an outbreak of cholera, and the work of a demented arsonist. The authorities insisted that departing refugees were given rations to sustain them on their walk and that they would receive seeds for planting once they reached their homes...
HOSPITALIZED. Gary Coleman, 16, sassy 4-ft. 7-in. TV star who has branched out from his ongoing hit series, Different Strokes, to make TV and feature films (his latest, Playing with Fire, about a teen-age arsonist, is scheduled to air early next year); in fair condition and improving after a three-hour kidney transplant operation; in Los Angeles. It was Coleman's second transplant, replacing an eleven-year-old donated kidney that began to fail two years ago. He is expected to resume shooting his TV series in seven weeks...
...country to take over the White House should some disaster or assassin strike. That piety is a useful standard to keep before the eyes of the convention, and in a civics-lesson way, it should be true. But it is mostly nonsense. No presidential nominee wants a cretin or arsonist on his ticket, but otherwise the running mate is chosen, not for sterling presidential qualities, but because he (she) will help ensure victory in November. The exercise is often called ticket balancing. If nominees in elections past have chosen running mates for geographical balance, or ethnic balance, or religious balance...
Crampton resident Julie E. Gershon said that she and the other students of the all-female dormitory are "very upset," adding "we weary that the arsonist will choose a room-other than the garbage room as a target...