Word: extinguishes
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...clock exodus, had left one of the trap doors of the incinerator open. A few minutes later a passer-by flipped a cigaret into the opening, whence it dropped to the basement on a pile of refuse. It took the services of the whole House janitorial staff to extinguish the blaze, which threatened to asphyxiate the residents of the upper floors...
Everyone enjoyed a wonderful time as the chief or one of his important deputies was sent on the perilous trip up a ten foot ladder in order to extinguish a smoldering rag on top of an awning at the Charles Restaurant. His was the delicate task of chopping out a part of the framework of the window without marring the much-dirtied glass two and a half inches below. He was assisted by kindly Fate and the crowd was able to return to their beds knowing that the city fathers were adequately protecting their lives and property...
After a few attempts at breaking it up with a squad car driven the wrong way down Plympton Street, the Cambridge police gave up the job, and unwittingly turned it over to the local fire department which arrived opportunely to extinguish some curtains which in some inexplicable manner had caught fire in Winthrop House. This caused added commotion as more people came to see Cambridge's Brigades in action...
...taken off the Dole, said the prophets. There would be riots, bloodshed, insurrection. Administrator Hopkins heeded not at all. By December he had hired his 4,000,000 men. In mid-February, still heedless of the conservatives' lugubrious prophecy, he began to fire them again, promising to extinguish...
...first day Sato quailed as sirens howled over the entire Tokyo area of 5,000,000 people. He trotted to his doorstep with pails of water, set them outside to extinguish imaginary fires. Overhead he saw enemy planes in small formations zooming out of the mist, circling over parks and department store roofs where anti-aircraft guns spat upward. Suddenly the street blossomed with colored vapors, to indicate that poison gas and incendiary bombs had been dropped. He coughed in good earnest as a smoke screen smelling like burning rubber billowed down on him. Suddenly the street was streaked with...