Word: fired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brave. In Pittsburg, Kans., learning of a possible interruption of the city's water supply, City Commissioner Lynn McCool anxiously declaimed: "We can go a day without drinking water, but we can't go that long without fire water...
...bailed out of his burning biplane at 500 ft., and in 1940 he parachuted from a storm-battered fighter. In 1954, as a three-star general, he won the Soldier's Medal for helping to save the pilot of his 6-17 when the plane caught fire on landing...
...Spit. In Rome teen-age students -most of them neo-Fascists-marched on the Austrian embassy and hurled stones at the riot police, who doused them with fire hoses and chased them down in red Jeeps. Going before the Chamber of Deputies to win a necessary vote of confidence for his new government, Italian Premier Antonio Segni attacked those who were making "political capital" of the South Tyrol issue, insisted that it is a "matter that concerns Italy alone." He was promptly voted into office by 333-248, the biggest majority that any Italian Premier, even De Gasperi...
...Either accept my conditions or burn the score. I will prepare the fire, and I will personally put Falstaff and his stomach on the flames." So wrote fiery-tempered, 79-year-old Composer Giuseppe Verdi in a letter to his publisher in 1892. But Verdi, who had already received one of the handsomest premiums ever offered a composer, was persuaded not to burn Falstaff. Along with the originals of Verdi's 26 other operas, it was long stored in Milan in a plain brownstone office building at No. 2 Via Berchet, not far from La Scala. The opera house...
...Fireproof Tile. Armstrong Cork Co. put on sale a new acoustical ceiling tile that it hopes will cut costs in public buildings. Fire codes require heavy insulation of beams before applying ceiling tile; Armstrong's Fire-Guard tile eliminates the need by interlocking to form its own insulation. Price: 75? to $1.10 for a foot-square tile...