Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With the old place back on her feet again," said one Billingsgate porter who had fought to save All Hallows from 1940's fire bombs, "now you really know the war's over...
Hitler's blitz of 1940 rained down a hotter kind of fire. All that remained of the church at war's end was the crypt, the shell of the tower and the bare stone walls, all lying not a mile from the still intact magnificence of the much newer (1675-1710) St. Paul's. Planners in charge of the rebuilding of London marked off All Hallows as too far gone for restoration...
...dollars in state funds, compounded by unbelievably lax state auditing procedures. Last week, after a week's airing before a legislative committee, the Guard's Adjutant General Charles Gurdon Sage, 62, a veteran of Bataan.† Japanese prison camps and 38 years as a guardsman, resigned under fire. The Guard's shenanigans were under investigation by the state attorney general, state finance director, Sante Fe district attorney and Santa Fe county grand jury...
...Battle of the Coral Sea; of a heart ailment; in San Diego. A World War I submarine commander, "Ted" Sherman (no kin to his fellow admiral, the late Forrest Sherman) learned to fly at 47, took command of the Lexington in 1940. A cool leader under fire, he was a hard-hitting senior task-group commander within the Fast Carrier Task Force, in one four-month period destroyed 350 enemy aircraft, 46 enemy ships, in his combat-starred Navy career won three Navy Crosses...
...Fire Down Below. Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw concocts a fast-paced yarn of the Caribbean, punctuates it with lust, betrayal and revenge; with Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...