Word: cocoanuts
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These books have never been more valuable than after the Cocoanut Grove fire, when frantic parents called in to find out if their daughters were safe...
...those on the receiving end of this plethora are convinced that the dining hall department is using them as a testing ground for strange new experiments. Others assert that an old eccentric gentleman left an endowment to provide all future students with his favorite ice creams--peanut brittle, cherry cocoanut, and macaroon...
...Blockhouse, where athletic coupons are directly redeemable for admission tickets, the seating capacity is 1600. It was 2200 before the Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942 and the University may apply for a concession. The figure is based on fire prevention regulations that there be six square feet per person on the floor and a two-foot width of egress for every 100 persons...
...spark." He loves volunteer firefighting, has wangled a fire department sign for his car so he can drive right up to the fire lines. He also carries an honorary police commissioner's gold badge, likes to loaf around police headquarters. During Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, in which 492 died, Fiedler was stationed at a morgue. During the war, like many other Bostonians over military age, he took his turn on small Coast Guard Auxiliary craft patrolling Boston Harbor...
Allport cited the study of Dr. Erich Lindemann of the Massachusetts General Hospital after the Cocoanut Grove fire to illustrate that continued suppression of feelings often produces strain and tension in the individual personality. He added that such a state can develop into a complex of a serious order...