Word: fire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's what Quincy House residents wondered on Monday, after an overloaded washing machine began to smoke and then set off a fire alarm...
Several Cambridge fire trucks and an ambulance rushed to the scene in a "precautionary response," according to Lieutenant Edward L. Enos of the Cambridge Fire Department...
...machine "corrected itself," Enos said, and the smoking stopped. No fire ever developed, and there were no injuries...
...next day friends moved in with us. Their house had been riddled with machine-gun fire. We blacked out the house and had seven kids sleeping on cots in the living room...
...fled Paris, former U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh Gibson invited us to a dinner at the Ritz with Clare Boothe Luce and a collaborator of Polish General Vladislav Sikorski. It was incredibly macabre: the city was two-thirds surrounded by German troops, the sky was lit up with artillery fire, and there, at the Ritz, everything was as it had always been: waiters in tails, the food, the wine. The proprietor asked us to sign his guest book. Years later, I learned from Field Marshal Rommel's chief of staff that he and Rommel were the next ones to sign...