Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City last week, Irwin Blum, 10-year-old Bronx boy, became curious. Wishing to see how fire boxes work, he pulled in a false alarm. As the hose truck of Engine Co. No. 73 sped toward the non-existent fire, an automobile drove across its path. Swerving to avoid collision, the hose truck crashed into an "L" pillar. Fireman Henry Holster, father of four children, was killed...
...Selden, L. I. Chief Fire Ranger Clarence Dare insisted that a fire which raged last week over 6,000 acres of scrub oak and stunted pines, driving before it and suffocating, singeing, roasting a stampede of deer, foxes, rabbits, mice, had all started from a smudge ignited by one Ernest Chenel, 9, to smoke out a skunk...
...teeth. When they released Mr. Greenwood, he was able to stagger into the refuge of the international city. ¶ Foreign shipping on the Yangtze River was repeatedly potshot by irresponsible Chinese artillery on shore, last week, causing the U. S. S. Preble and Cincinnati to return this fire several times with four-inch and six-inch guns. When similarly attacked, the British H. M. S. Mantis and Wolsey went into action with machine guns...
Nicaraguans know better than to fire at 6,000 U. S. marines who patrol, police and "neutralize" their country; but last week some of the marines began to fly about Nicaragua in airplanes, and Nicaraguans embraced enthusiastically the opportunity to snipe undetected at these planes from cover...
...gusto how, as Commander of the destroyer Noa, he had ordered the bombardment of Nanking (TIME, April 4) in order to save the lives of the U. S. Consul and other U. S. citizens beseiged in the city. The spectre of Commodore Dewey, and his ringing command, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley!" kindled in the correspondents' imagination as their pencils raced to take down the words of hearty, beaming Lieutenant Commander Smith...