Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oldest tricks of political self-preservation is shooting the (fire) works. With food prices skyhigh, unsanitary housing, insufficient transportation, Poles rioting, Hungarians grumbling, Chinese thinking, a guy has to do something to stay in business ; Nikita therefore had to shoot the sputnik to give them something to shout about. Their "moonitchko" is only the result of a desperate gamble to catch the imagination (of the Russians) and the headlines (of the West). To yell at our own scientists and planners because they are taking their time to produce a product for space research is merely harmonizing with Nikita...
...Camus had rocketed into the Parisian literary firmament and the existential orbit of Jean-Paul Sartre. During the German occupation Camus fired the morale of the underground with eloquent pieces in his clandestine Combat. After the war he personified, with Sartre, the "engaged" writer, an active intellectual always ready to slide down the bell rope of the ivory tower and answer the fire alarms of left-wing social and economic causes. The two friends split irrevocably in 1952 over Communist ideology, with Camus holding that ends never justify means ("For a faraway city of which I am not sure...
...band blaring along behind. The President took a quick look at three other markets, sped through the city to dedicate a four-lane freeway crossing the city, flitted through the gleaming new laboratories of police headquarters, took an approving brief glance at the new dormitories and gymnasium of the fire-department annex, popped over to the new penitentiary...
...Extension "for at least five years" of the tariff-lowering Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (expiration date: June), which is under hot congressional fire...
Clearly some such post should be created. At present there is no one close to the President thoroughly conversant with scientific developments, and, consequently, the government's missile program is muddled and inefficient. The army and the navy seem far more inclined to fire missiles at each other than into outer space...