Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five false fire alarms the morning after election (as he turned in the sixth, police arrested him). In San Antonio, a Democratic boarder, annoyed by the triumphant smirks of his Republican landlady, set fire to her house. "I just didn't like her attitude," he explained to firemen...
Gregg argued that late-coming students were inconvenienced by the fact that only the back door of the House stayed open. Firemen he said, would also be inconvenienced if there were an early morning House configuration...
Almost two decades of Harvard Freshmen have learned to hate the buildings erected at Cambridge St. and Broadway. Since 1934, no man's sleep has been safe, as the doughty firemen race out to one of the 1,000 odd alarms that the Central fire House answers yearly...
...midst of a fairly dangerous job--injuries are quite common death is not unknown--the firemen try to keep a cheerful outlook. One Christmas Eve, not long ago, Central Station answered a call near the Square. It was from the house of a widow with four children, and the kitchen, where the fire had started, was gutted. There was a tremendous hole in the roof, and it had been alternately raining and snowing for days. The firemen brought the blaze under control, nailed a tarpaulin over the hole, cleared away the debris, and before they left, one of them remembered...
Damage to the Law School building was estimated at $2,000 by the University Fire Department. The blaze was probably started by a cigarette butt smoldering in a couch, they said. Walls were stripped to the bricks and books ruined as firemen chopped and sprayed to stop the fire...