Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasons for opposing the mass gatherings, von Stade cited the chance for injury caused by firecrackers, thrown bottles, and other missiles, and the danger of fire in the dormitories...
Last night's trouble was noisy but brief. A Roman candle went off in the Yard, along with several firecrackers and someone set off the fire alarm in Thayer South. University police immediately began to take bursars' cards and the disturbance ended...
...Minister Roberto Salazar, a neighbor of kidnaped General Fonseca. "There's a plot against the government," gasped Salazar. "They've taken the generals and are coming for you. You must be dressed when I come by your house." Piedrahita scrambled into his uniform and climbed down the fire escape of his apartment building as Salazar drove...
...scarcely a key theme for a play about Moses. But the real trouble is that Fry offers so little to build with-neither real dramatic bricks nor real psychological stones, only philosophic shards and ethical bits of glass. A story that, told as vivid theater, might blaze with Biblical fire, seems quite unwarmed. A story that, recounted as high drama, might seem grandly severe, seems elaborately hollow. Set against the Moses of Michelangelo, Fry's Moses seems solemnly carved out of soap...
...cost of sharp criticism (e.g., the Manchester Guardian called his decision against Churchill "rather hoity-toity"), Rich has kept Chicago at the top of big league U.S. museums. He originated a score of important shows, most recently the exhibition of paintings by Pointillist Georges Seurat that was threatened by fire last month while on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (bringing Rich to New York within six hours). By encouraging his curators to build up the museum's print, decorative arts and Oriental collections, by starting a photography section and by "sneaking in" a new department...