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...want to be a fireman as a child? Catherine Pilie COVINGTON...
...This is not to say that awareness, per se, is a bad thing. If I were in a burning theater, I would definitely appreciate someone who showed up in a Fire In Theaters Awareness Week t-shirt and shouted at me. But I would appreciate a fireman even more. In an age of mass media, e-mail lists, and Youtube, when information travels faster than ever, it is not difficult to be aware. But it is difficult to move from awareness to action...
...Bolton's book covers his childhood as the son of a Baltimore fireman, his days at Yale Law School and his service in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. But it's the brickbats he reserves for Rice and fellow diplomats and civil servants in the current Administration that grab the most attention. First as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and then as U.N. ambassador, Bolton emerges as an outspoken unilateralist and an opponent of treaties and international institutions ranging from the Kyoto climate convention to the International Court of Criminal Justice...
...hitch up their petticoats and show a saucy swath of ankle, paving the way for their liberated granddaughters to pay for their own $34.99 Vixen Pirate costumes from Party City. I guess reducing women to pneumatic parodies of actual people with Y chromosomes—Sexy policeman! Sexy fireman! Sexy lumberjack!—is bad and all...but for every embarrassing minus to ill-fitting corsets and such (quadra-boob, for example), there are quite a few pluses. Who will we right-thinking Second Wave holdouts have to feel superior to, if not a bunch of sluts in short...
...Thankfully, our Bastille Day “Fireman’s Ball” did not lack its own supply of house music. We got an earful at the open-air dance fest as the fireman-DJ blasted song after song (including the classics “Love Generation” and “World Hold On” by Bob Sinclair, European house music god). And naturally, the ball featured memorable drunken debauchery...