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Word: fire (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of Kirkland House supposedly celebrated the opening drive for their newest dance Saturday night with a fire in main courtyard. First notice of the dance was given several days before by a sign which appeared on the dining hall bulletin board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cats Cause Conflagration in Courtyard | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...years a slim, changing line of girls-about 800 in all-moved ceaselessly through government lines with the intelligence and supplies that were oxygen for the Sierra Maestra fire. The jump-off point for most was underground headquarters in a medical laboratory in eastern Santiago, less than a mile from the government fortress. It was operated as a cover by Mrs. Herminia Santos Bush, a handsome, steely matron whose rebel doctor-husband had been forced to flee. There, under flaring skirts, the rebellion's girls donned canvas harnesses equipped with pockets, loaded themselves with messages, gun parts, radios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Women of the Rebellion | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...Democrats exercises at Lincoln's Birthday fund-raising ceremonies. Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn polled G.O.P. Senators on how many philippics they could unload at party rallies this year, learned to his mild horror that a bipartisan clerk had mailed one query astray. Bemused recipient of the inadvertent, fire-eating "Dear Frank" appeal: Utah's new Democrat Frank E. Moss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 19, 1959 | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...cruise in any direction, meeting practically no resistance. But it must keep away from the whirlpools: the gravitational fields that surround stars and planets. If it plunges into one of them, it may end as a puff of gas in a star or a brief streak of fire in a planet's atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Push into Space | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...denouement until the very end, and there is enough violence to last all but the most sadistic for several weeks. Again Gabin is masterful, although he leaves the shooting to several excellently portrayed gangster types who expires at the film's end in a burst of machine gun fire...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Inspector Maigret | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

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