Word: doorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth-grade geography on the second floor, the teacher thought that the room was getting too warm. Said she: 'Why don't some of you boys open the windows?" In fourth-grade arithmetic, a boy blurted: "Sister, I smell smoke." Smoke began to seep under classroom doors, through open transoms. A fire alarm clanged. The fourth-grade teacher opened the door, found the corridor full of smoke, slammed the door shut. She told the children to go to the windows and pray...
...Going to Jump!" Driving his Buick south on Avers Avenue, Salesman Elmer Barkhaus, 61, glanced at the school, saw smoke coming out of the back door. Before he could get out of the car, flames were shooting out of the school. At 2:42 he gave the first alarm. At 2:44 the first company of firemen got there, sirens screaming. The situation: a flash fire had started in the rear-basement stair well of the school's north wing, had been shut out of the first floor by fire-prevention doors, was now engulfing the second floor -fire...
...COUNTRY, TO BE SQUARE, AND TO ... Alive Was Kenny Travers, 7, whose mother told a reporter, "I hugged him and hugged him" -whereupon Kenny interrupted, "And you said I can get candy whenever I want ." Two days later police watched understandingly as a man beat his hands against the door of Our Lady of the Angels, crying: "Come on out now, son. I'm out here waiting...
Behind that door, black laths hung down like macabre pennants. Jagged bits of glass were yellowed by the heat. Desks were overturned, heaped with rubble. A ballpoint pen lay here, a plastic billfold embossed PONYTAIL there. Charred coats still hung on hooks. A couple of odd shoes, one a loafer, one red-strapped, lay together filled with ice from fire hoses' water. On top of one blackboard, black letters still read: COME, LITTLE LORD, HERE...
With a midnight knock at the door, Francisco Franco's security police struck in cities and towns. In San Sebastian and Madrid, Barcelona and Granada, hurriedly dressed men were hustled into squad cars and packed off to jail...