Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conquered him, but whatever youth he had once possessed had long since faded from his face and only a remnant of fire burned behind his tired and blurry eyes. Not even his faith in radicalism, a movement to which he had devoted the greater part of his life, had been able to hold back the wrinkled and weather-beaten appearance he presented. Leaning back in his chair, he re-lit his pipe, and assumed a reflective fixity in his rendezvous with the past...
Clumsiness v. Caution. One raiding force of rebels staged a clumsy daylight attack outside Manzanillo, planning to lure Batista's armor out from the big city garrison, pile it up by triggering a homemade mine in the road, and then pick off the soldiers with rifle fire. The armor did not come out, but truckloads of soldiers did. The mine was a dud. Coordinated ground fire and strafing planes caught the rebels in an open field, and at least half of the 21-man force was wiped out. The government reported that twelve more rebels were killed when they...
...Morocco; less than a year after Inside Africa appeared on the bookstalls, Morocco was independent. The last 1951 edition of Inside U.S.A. perpetuates Stevenson Democrat Gunther's three-year-old thumbs-down verdict on Earl Warren (whom he had not met): "He will never set the world on fire or even make it smoke." In all his 35 years as a foreign-news specialist, Gunther has never learned a foreign language. His critics also take him to task for deliberately passing up fundamentals for froth. Inside Africa, chided the sober Times of India, has only "one page dealing with...
...still far behind the $162 million sales of its chief competitor. General Tire & Rubber Co.'s Aerojet-General Corp.). Though Thiokol's first-quarter sales are off a bit because some of its military contracts ran out and one plant was damaged by fire, Thiokol expects a 50% gain for all of calendar 1958. Reason: solid fuels are far simpler and safer to handle than liquid fuels that require a maze of tanks, valves and pumps, and they show the greatest promise for powering missiles until the atom-powered engine comes along...
...Carfare. In St. Paul, Insurance Clerk Myrtle Deyo got a prize of $1,002 from the suggestion committee of the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. for suggesting that her own job be abolished...