Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million veterans of World War II, followed by 4,500,000 from Korea, have gone back into civilian life with hardly a ripple. They have, in fact, become the main stream, in many ways changing the course of U.S. life itself. Though only one in ten ever traded fire with the enemy, most grew to understand men and machines, brought back technical and supervisory proficiency that encouraged and staffed the postwar technological revolution-from TV repair shop to nuclear lab, from farm to Ford Motor Co. They coupled a broadened outlook with a conservative, down-to-earth manner that...
Last week two of the world's leading opera houses-East Berlin's Komische Oper and Milan's La Scala-were performing brilliant and strikingly different productions of Turandot. According to the libretto, Chinese Princess Turandot is a creature of "ice which gives fire," and the productions mirrored the icily realistic and warmly romantic visions of two master directors of opera: East Berlin's Walter Felsenstein, Vienna's Margherita Wallmann...
...federal revenuers, wounding both with one shotgun blast-or maybe more than one. Convicted of two violations of a federal law prohibiting "assault" on a federal officer, Ladner was sentenced to two ten-year prison terms. After serving one term, he appealed on the ground that he had fired only one shot and was therefore guilty of only one "assault." Overruling lower courts, the Supreme Court found the plea valid. Noting that the same law makes it an offense to "impede" a federal officer, the court asked: If a man locked a door to keep out several federal officers, would...
...last October two Chinese handymen refused to stoke the furnace in the comfortable house of Chargé d'Affaires Berend Jan Slingenberg, unless they got higher wages or another man to help them. Slingenberg told them to fire up the furnace or get fired themselves. When they burst into his office to protest as he was busy with a caller, he angrily ordered them out of the office, and gave one a push. For two weeks nothing happened. Then, one by one, 42 Chinese servants and staffmen began to leave...
...Flood or Fire. What he wanted to know, said Kawamura, was why he had been hagridden by bad luck since birth? "My parents died when I was a child; I have no living kin. I never met a girl who would marry me. I am being haunted, but I don't know what my crime has been." He poured out more of his woes: when he got a job, he was either fired or the company went bankrupt; when he tried to be a peddler, no one would buy his combs and bits of ribbon; he had failed...