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Word: fired (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Chinese Communists completed their capture of Shanghai in 1949, he courageously stuck out a two-day siege, marked by bursts of machine-gun fire, that cut off the American consulate building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Career Man for Rio | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was as busy last week as a solitary fireman putting out a brush fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Lone Fireman | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...deck, never touch polished brass), insist on such levity as cocktail flags-or worse, flags that show a ball and chain (wife aboard), or a battle ax (mother-in-law aboard). They will foul the fine, salty lines of nautical language with mere jibberish, cool their beer with CO fire extinguishers, are blissfully ignorant of the well-founded Rules of the Road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boat Fever | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...fire pregnant women?" interrupts Robert Bowers...

Author: By Kent Geiger, | Title: Soviet Article "Reports" Student Exchange | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

About 300 Freshmen assembled in the Yard last night in a lackadaisical attempt at a spring riot. Several Cambridge fire engines were called to the scene, but students were relatively peaceful and soon dispersed for lack of action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Riot Fizzles As Firetrucks Arrive | 5/12/1959 | See Source »

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