Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Firemen refused housekeeping duties, such as checking fire hydrants and inspecting buildings, and the head of the firemen's union warned that the slowdown "could escalate into a full-scale strike" that would leave alarms unanswered and homes in danger...
Charles H. McGlue, chairman of the Wallace fund-raising drive in Massachusetts, issued a warning yesterday to anyone "stupid enough" to demonstrate against Wallace at the Common today. McGlue said that off-duty police and firemen will be on hand to form a bodyguard for their candidate, and that "protesters will find there are a lot of people to take them...
...pair, a man and a woman, came down from the crane after appeals from the University Police, and Cambridge police and firemen on the scene, police said...
...council voted unanimously to send the proposal to its finance committee, where it will join a similar request previously submitted by the City's firemen. The fire-fighters asked for slightly smaller increases...
...beginning could hardly have been more appropriate. There were the firemen searching the decrepit Teatro degli Animosi (Theater of the Courageous) in the Italian town of Carrara for bombs. Only after they had given the all clear did the Third International Congress of Anarchist Federations call itself to order-of a sort. As it turned out, there was more than enough verbal bombast to compensate for the lack of real bombs...