Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rounded up, along with a motley crew of anarchists, royalists, diehard Yugoslav Catholics and Cominform Communists, and shipped off to Corsica for a week's vacation-food, wine and sightseeing-at France's expense. A small army of about 15,000 police, plainclothesmen, helmeted Gardes Republicaines and firemen were deployed over Paris to help keep the peace. Along the route of march from the railroad station to the Elysee Palace, where the visitors were to stay, Parisian firemen stood watch on rooftops, and every chestnut tree shaded a cop or a detective. Public sewers and private houses along...
...negotiated. To spare the old man's pride and health together, the city fathers of Aachen had herded the 300 invited guests into the auditorium ahead of Sir Winston, then, discreetly sealing'the staircase from prying eyes, had the great guest carried up by four city firemen...
...Miller '56 of Adams B-46 noticed the fire when he saw smoke coming up through his floorboards. He mentioned it to the janitor, who, upon sober reflection, decided to call the fire department. The fire was cornered in a wooden beam between the two floors and while several firemen cut holes in the ceiling of the bottom room, others pried up the floor of the top room. They met in the middle...
Licking its wound, the Harvard Union yesterday served lunch to freshmen and took stock of the damage it suffered Thursday from the onslaught of flames, water, and firemen...
...fire was out, having burned only some outside molding and roof beams at the southwest corner of the building. To get at the smoldering blaze, however, firemen had had to tear away walls, rip through ceilings, and shoot high-pressure water throughout the whole leaky structure. The result was extensive damage to plaster and furnishings on the upper floors and in the western half of the main dining room...