Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...track (but not on the three adjoining tracks). As the fire fighters hosed the blaze, a southbound New Haven train roared up and before the engineer could stop for the flickering red flare, sliced the hoses, which whiplashed crazily around and injured eight firemen. Into the confusion raced fire department officials to begin a lengthy investigation. And all the while, from Grand Central Station and from stations to the north of the accident, came more trains, of the New York Central as well as the New Haven (they share some of the heaviest loaded trackage) until the cars were strung...
Professors, teaching fellows, and lab assistants battled the blaze with a total of ten fire extinguishers until firemen arrived...
...whoopee is without consequences; by carnival's end last week, Rio's firemen had been called out 50 times, some 6,995 people had reported into the city's hospitals for treatment of bruises and wounds, and another 2,350 had been hauled in by the cops whose charge books recorded 13 murders, three suicides, 477 fights and 87 assaults. After that came Lent. The church might not approve of all that went on, but there were earnest psychologists who argued that there were therapeutic dividends from thousands of repressions relaxed and frustrations banished...
...delicious tchelo kabob (tender lamb strips, rice, raw egg, melted butter), who had brought them food and now could not leave without being arrested by the soldiers surrounding the building with fixed bayonets. Twelve thousand university students surged through the streets shouting for "free elections," until dispersed by firemen with high-pressure hoses...
...also, of course, a gamely resourceful Tallulah, now Charlestoning, now sliding down banisters and firemen's poles, now swinging far out across the stage, or making utterance in her best Bankhead baritone, or looking for just a second like grandmother turning into the wolf. But for all that, granny's not up to a whole evening, while Midgie Purvis is scarcely alive for half...