Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was the opposite slant from the Christian Democratic Socialist government of Amintore Fanfani who resigned as premier Jan. 26 under fire from both wings of his shaky coalition...
Fuel Hardy. In Statesville, N.C., Kenneth Turner Bauguess tried his best to keep Police Sergeant C. R. Lloyd from helping him put out a fire in his car, was arrested when Lloyd insisted, ordered him to lift the hood, found that the blaze was caused by a broken jar of bootleg whisky that had caught fire from contact with overheated parts of the engine...
...attack, 218, attack . . . The target is a transport, four-engined. I am attacking the target . . . Target speed is 300 [kilometers-186 m.p.h.. I am going along with it. It is turning toward the fence . . . The target is burning. There's a hit . . . The target is banking . . . Open fire . . . 218, are you attacking? Yes, yes . . . The target is burning . . . The tail assembly is falling off the target . . . I am in front of the target . . . Look at him. He will not get away. He is already falling. Yes, he is falling. I will finish him off, boys, I will finish...
...Fire & Water. As is inevitable among equal partners, everybody had his own emphasis. Charles de Gaulle, anxious to strengthen his ties with West Germany, argued that it would look like a surrender to Russia's six-month ultimatum if the Western allies suggested any date at all for a big power conference on Germany, and felt that the British were in too great a hurry to talk to the Soviets...
...Bonn Dulles found Konrad Adenauer willing to appear flexible but skeptical of making any substantial concessions to Russia. In particular, Adenauer is wary of anything that smacks of "confederation,'1 the Russian scheme to link East and West Germany by loose federal institutions. Asks Adenauer scornfully: "Can fire and water confederate...