Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over much of Virginia, if we read yesterday's election returns correctly, the issue of school integration no longer is the flaming fire that once threatened to consume this Old Dominion. Yesterday was Moderation...
Within minutes police and engines from two firehouses arrived on the scene, and a large crowd gathered. Police, fearing further damage, cleared the area when electric sparks shot out of the hole. The fire itself quickly yielded to carbon dioxide fire extinguishers. Officials said the blast resulted from a short circuit which ignited gases in the manhole. Electric power was off for a two-hour period...
...free-spending order are being swept out of office in droves, and newspapers run regular casualty lists, stating name, rank, misdemeanor and punishment. New Chevrolets, once a man's conspicuous mark of distinction in Karachi streets, are now hidden away in garages, and one businessman even painted his fire-engine-red station wagon a dull grey, happy to have it no longer "an eye-catcher." A strolling policeman no longer accepts the gratuitous glass of iced sherbet from the street vendor, under pain of prosecution for them both if he does. Office "peons" no longer demand "tea money...
...positioned a French MAT submachine gun in the rear window, two pushed gun muzzles through the pantry screen, the other two went to the front of the building to cover the Vietnamese guard. When Sergeant Ovnand snapped on the lights to change the first reel, the terrorists opened fire...
...sausage maker's two daughters, seduces one in the bathroom, the other in the bedroom. Soon, Joe and one of the hot-dog girls are fleeing for Canada. Joe's guilty secret has been discovered, and the cops are closing in. A burst of machine-gun fire finishes Joe, his girl, their problems and the movie...