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Word: fire (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jagged bits of glass were yellowed by the heat. Desks were overturned, heaped with rubble. A ballpoint pen lay here, a plastic billfold embossed PONYTAIL there. Charred coats still hung on hooks. A couple of odd shoes, one a loafer, one red-strapped, lay together filled with ice from fire hoses' water. On top of one blackboard, black letters still read: COME, LITTLE LORD, HERE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Chicago School Fire | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...began his movie career at the start of Hollywood's slump. He often suspects that papa was right. Once that businesslike gentleman from Cleveland sniffed scornfully around the movie lots, pronounced one studio a "firetrap" and another "land poor." Soon afterwards, the first studio had a fire and the other has since taken to drilling for oil to boost the bankroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Man in the Lampshade | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...affiliated courts. Snapped one official: "Australia is Kramer's happiest hunting ground. He is out to break the amateur game, and if the L.T.A.A. gives in to him now, he will succeed." Kramer bristled, "I would expect this kind of treatment only in Russia," added coals to the fire by signing Doubles Star Mervyn Rose, ranked No. 4 in Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Sport That Jack Built | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...feels that he must shoot in self-defense, but he cannot bring himself to aim at the boys who "were probably akin to him in spirit, in education, in moral values." And so, in a perfect illustration of Zhivago's essential refusal to do harm, he aims his fire at a dead tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Passion of Yurii Zhivago | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...Great Chicago Fire, Cromie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: From Hollywood | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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