Word: fire
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week Nakamura and his mayoralty candidate, Socialist Tetsuji Otsu, wheedled enough votes from the fire-ravaged Naseians to win the election. Their most telling campaign promise: money to rebuild the burned-out homes. But Father Jerome, struggling to help the survivors of a new storm, knew that the battle had barely begun. Said he: "It's too early to tell yet whether the Reds are going to try to hamper our work, now that they've won. But they know we are not exactly well disposed toward them...
Said Lang: "I rely on my own ears, and I am perfectly satisfied with them . . . Well, 3,000 people can't be wrong. Why don't they fire...
...push at the Post† comes from plump, stogie-chomping Executive Editor (and Board Member) Arthur Emmett Laro, 46, whose first move on taking over as managing editor in 1947 was to fire twelve staffers. He got a free hand from his publishers, Texas' onetime (1917-20) Governor William P. Hobby and his wife, Oveta Gulp, wartime WAC commander and the nation's first (1953-55) Health, Education and Welfare Secretary. In ten years Laro has quadrupled his editorial staff (to 110) and kept Houston humming with such solidly documented exposés as hawk-faced City Editor...
...their dogs' legs and chests, leaving a pile of red fuzz on the floor. Rumors flew that some of the competitors even had eye drops to enhance their pupils. And to keep up morale, Abercrombie & Fitch was on hand with gifts not only for the dog, e.g., rubber fire hydrants, $1, but also for the owner (imported silk ties emblazoned with dog heads...
Jugs of Martinis. "Our candle does more than burn at both ends," says a Millay-minded character in Young Mr. Keeje. "We toss the whole thing into the fire!" Young Jimmy Keefe, the novel's hero, resembles less a blazing youth than a defective flue. His ego is choked with remorse over a botched-up marriage and clogged with vague resentment over the $4,000,000 he will one day inherit from his father, a Connecticut tycoon. In self-imposed California exile, Jimmy measures out his woebegone life in thermos jugfuls of martinis. His chief drinking pals are Fellow...