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Word: fire (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ingredient, of course, is the memory of last year's fiasco, in which a powerful Eli squad ran the score up so high that most people lost count. But more recently, a series of rather pointed statements from football VIPs at the two colleges have added fat to the fire...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Crimson Eleven Favored to Wreak Revenge Against Yale Today Before Crowd of 40,000 | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...months ago millions of Chinese students and workers were whipped into a synthetic fenzy of rage at "U.S. invasion" of Quemoy and the other offshore islands (TIME. Sept. 22). Scarcely had these demonstrations reached the proper pitch of hysteria when Peking did an about-face, proclaimed first a cease-fire and then its present senseless policy of shelling Quemoy only on alternate days, as if to show that if Red China could not take the islands, it could kill innocent people on them at will. "Some Communists may not yet understand this," conceded a government directive which Western experts thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: No Questions, Please | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...something wrong with her temporal lobe, it was most likely a tuberculoma (a "firm, cheeselike abscess"), because when she jumped from the tower of Beaurevoir (variously estimated as 40 to 70 ft. high) she suffered no hemorrhage. Finally, Joan's conscientious executioner complained that even in his hottest fire her entrails would not burn. Dr. Butterfield suggests that this "would not be surprising if there were many calcified lymph glands in the abdomen, the usual result of bovine tuberculosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Trouble with Joan | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

Will the space you're so rich in Light a fire in the kitchen, Or the little god of space turn the Spit, spit, spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hell Is Here | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

This year's list of recommended charities includes PBH, the United Fund, Salzburg Seminar, the American Friends Service Committee, and the emergency fund for the University Band. The funds given to the Band will replace music damaged in the fire, Hurwitt explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charities Drive To Start Dec. 5; $12,000 Goal Set | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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