Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration, in cooperation with the University Police Department, has requested all students to remove illegally parked cars from the streets in the vicinity of the Houses. Due to the recent snow, parked cars are posing serious difficulties in fire fighting and snow removal, aside from obstructing normal traffic, police said...
...Actors' Company production of Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding is, as the former ventures of this group have led us to expect, careful and competent. But for some reason, this present effort fails to catch fire as it might...
...Sidi-Youssef, a Tunisian village only 700 yards from the Algerian border, were thronged. Shortly before noon, a flight of 25 French military aircraft-mostly U.S.-made fighters and light bombers-swept over the border. In precise military formation, they bombed the town, strafed the streets with machine-gun fire. When the planes turned back to their Algerian bases an hour later, the scabrous little village was a shambles. Nearly 80 dead and 79 wounded were recovered from the rubble. A school was bombed out and 34 children buried in the ruins. Two Red Cross trucks, distributing clothing to Algerian...
...stubborn Djilas, Tito's buddy from the partisan days, Actor Fritz Weaver glinted with the self-possessed fury of a man who is supremely confident that he is right and his party wrong. One effective sequence: Djilas standing before the rapid-fire bursts of invective from his friends-turned-enemies, then answering: "I will not retract a word of what I have said or written...
...Magnolia Petroleum Co., which has 14 planes, recently flew a team of fire fighters with full equipment from Dallas to a burning well in southwest Texas, got them there hours faster than by commercial airline...