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Word: fire (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dilworth recognized the voice. It belonged to the lady on the serving line who always tried for his tie with her ladle of gravy. So far, he had successfully fended her off, but she was becoming alarmingly accurate of late. Once, she had even managed to stain the fire dragon on his Japanese vest...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Man Cannot Live... | 11/18/1959 | See Source »

...power to pick Johnson-for-President delegates for most of the state's 31 convention votes. If Texan Johnson's bandwagon bogs down, Clements' men are convinced that they will be swung over to Missouri's Stuart Symington. But such plans may run into intraparty fire from Lieutenant Governor Wilson Wyatt, who may wind up fighting for a chance to split off some of the votes for Old Friend Stevenson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Kentucky Earthquake | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Hoping to keep up with the hot spirit of independence that is racing through the Congo like fire in dry bush, Belgium is holding elections there in December to offer a modicum of local self-rule, as a forerunner of a promised national government by Africans in 1964. But Congolese Africans, in a land 99% black, are impatiently several jumps ahead of the process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIAN CONGO: Now Now Now | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Expatriate Nostalgia. With more vodka came wistful recollections of Birrell's fieldstone showplace in fashionable New Hope, Pa., where he once kept a shiny, vintage fire engine, and reportedly entertained such celebrities as his friend the master swindler Serge Rubinstein, and some of Mickey Jelke's choicer, $100-a-night call girls. "I always took a big interest in the volunteer fire department in New Hope," said Old Fire Buff Birrell. "Volunteer firemen are a great thing in rural America." He also liked the autumn hunting. But "my house and nine-acre farm are in litigation now. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Gay Victim | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...would cost a company to maintain sufficient instructors, equipment and flight procedures. In addition, the pilots put in time (cost to the companies: $50 an hour) in a twin-engine translator and a just purchased Convair 340-440 simulator that can simulate every possible flight condition from ice to fire to mechanical malfunction. "There is not a pilot anywhere we could not drive to the breaking point," says Ueltschi. "We hold funeral services every afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Long Green Yonder | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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