Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Firemen said that the blaze probably started in the sofa--perhaps by a cigarette--and had been smoldering for several hours before it was discovered...
...Firemen evacuated the Harvard Coop and Textbook Annex for half an hour Friday afternoon following a telephoned bomb threat...
...Firemen wielding large axes searched both the Coop and Textbook Annex. No bomb was found...
...David Lodge, is that its antic spirit, though rich, is also overbearing. Like a TV situation-comedy writer, Lodge tailors his story and his characters to fit a loose collection of gags. The suspicion rises that he thought up the gags first. It is funny, of course, to see firemen swarm through the museum library on a false alarm, hosing down the stray scholar's pipe. But they are dispossessed figures like TV actors left standing on the studio stage while the scenery is being shifted for the next guffaw-in full view of the camera...
...fire never had a chance to spread to adjoining rooms. By ten, the firemen were coiling the hose and beginning to leave, and people started to filter back into the entry. Damage in G-41 was con fined to the furniture, smoke blackening water stains, and a small charred strip up one side of a closet door...