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Word: fire (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Repairs due to the September fire and general renovation of the Varsity Club began last week and will be completed by June 20, Richard P. Hallowell II '20, President, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Repairs Begin On Burnt-Out Varsity Club | 2/28/1959 | See Source »

...McLaughlin's blast from the left alley at 11:59, after the varsity forced play in the Dartmouth zone. Harvard fans were shocked six minutes later when McLaughlin fumbled a pass at his blue line allowing the Indians' high scorer Red Anderson to skate in the right alley and fire the disk into the lower right corner of the goal...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Dartmouth Defeats Crimson Sextet, 4-3 | 2/26/1959 | See Source »

...casinos, closed since the fall of Batista. At first Fidel Castro opposed gambling on principle. Provisional President Urrutia, Premier Miro Cardona and the Cabinet backed him up. But Castro's stand on principle dissolved in the face of the rapidly falling foreign exchange (it is now possible to fire a .45 down any hall of the Havana Hilton without hitting even a mouse) and of the jobless and strike-minded workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Castro Takes Over | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...Fire!" The one thing the shift of government would not change was the grisly rhythm of revenge. The trials and executions went on. At Havana's 195-year-old La Cabaña fortress, death has long since fallen into repetitious routine. The condemned man leaves his cell some time between i a.m. and 3 a.m. An army Jeep takes him through the darkness to the weed-grown bottom of the 20-ft.-deep moat. Against a stone wall, he invariably refuses a blindfold, asks permission to command the firing squad standing six paces away. He asks the squad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Castro Takes Over | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...work in his Kansas City (Mo.) studio in a converted stable. Because of an allergy, he has switched from egg yolk, once his favorite medium, to acrylic resin; because artificial light bothers his failing eyes, he paints only in daylight, often keeps his evenings illuminated with just a log fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rebel Against Rebellion | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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