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Word: firebug (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...bunch of smoke." The Park Service's Bruce Kilgore sighs: "We've got a major problem in explaining our position to the public." Which suggests it may be time to fire Smokey the Bear and hire some new symbolic mascot like Sparky the Firebug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Let'Em Burn | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

...during their jailing. According to defense, their well-coached confessions should entitle their acts to be constructed as mere misdemeanors, inasmuch as the parties were patriotically motivated to forestall the catastrophic felony of a democratic victory. (We marvel how conveniently files disappear in headquarters). We could reward the California firebug for risking his person as fire-fighter in the most disastrous fire Berkeley has had in decades, despite his authorship of the same. We could also award a posthumous peace-prize to Herr Von Ribbentrop for cementing a bilateral non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin just prior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOBEL PRIZE? | 2/22/1973 | See Source »

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