Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unarmed schoolboys hurled stones at police lorries and civilian freedom fighters stood up to machine-gun fire, Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Péerez Jiménez toppled with a crash that rattled the Americas' few remaining strongmen. Struggling to avoid a similar end at the hands of mountain guerrillas who have been battling for his overthrow, Cuba's President Fulgencio Batista relaxed his grip on civil rights, prepared to set up what he hoped would be a well-controlled election. And Guatemala, following its second try at presidential elections in three months, hovered at the brink of violence...
...mingled with criticism there was plenty of praise, especially from the Republican pros. In one day Meade Alcorn got 18 pro-Adams telephone calls from national committeemen and state chairmen. And Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Richard M. Simpson, ordinarily a lukewarm supporter of Sherman Adams, was suddenly on fire. Said he: "It was the best speech of them all. We would like to use Adams any time we could...
...proposal by Councilor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 to investigate the need for a Public Safety Commissioner to head the Fire and Police Departments was turned down by a 7-2 vote...
...explained that the committee may find no need for such a post and conclude that the Police and Fire departments could remedy the situation. Or, he suggested, it may find a need for the appointment of "someone who has not waxed fat on Civil Service, an ex-F.B.I. man or Marine sergeant who could whip some discipline into the police...
...Eventually Spiro is infected with the virus of sophistication, lands in the arms of Helen Bristow, a lonely, pliable American matron of about 45 who likes to play with Greek fire. Unfortunately for her, Spiro soon develops a rage to leave-for a pastry-plump Hellenic miss whose shipping-magnate daddy happens to be loaded with sugar. When Helen commits suicide, Spiro suffers a bad quarter-hour's remorse; it is nothing compared to the remorse he suffers after he marries the millionaire's daughter and discovers that wily old papa has cut the newlyweds off without...