Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Biographer Martin Seymour-Smith handles much of the fiction as inspired entertainments and a good deal of the criticism as counterattacks in the literary wars. Graves' targets were not insignificant. Vachel Lindsay: "jazz Blake, St. Francis of Assisi playing the saxophone at the Firemen's Ball." Ezra Pound: bad rhythms and "a wet handshake." Dylan Thomas: "a Welsh demagogic masturbator who failed to pay his bills." T.S. Eliot: "a marvelous satirist with a true poetic sense who had sold out to institutionalized religion...
Closer to home, the Justice Department has also filed a brief siding with white police officers and firemen in Boston who have filed a reverse-discrimination case scheduled to come before the Supreme Court this spring. When layoffs caused by Proposition 2 1/2 threatened to undo the effects of a recently approved and implemented affirmative action plan, a Circuit Court ordered the departments to alter their seniority plans to preserve in part the effects of preferential hiring. That decision resulted in the firing of some whites who would have retained their jobs under the established seniority plan, and led police...
...University official said that this is the first time in at least five years in which firemen were needed to put out a fire in a Harvard residential or administrative building...
...neighbors smelled it," explained a police officer, "and thought it was some kind of gas coming up through the chimney. So they called the gas company. The gasmen went there but couldn't figure out what it was. They called the fire department. The firemen couldn't figure it out. So they called us. We came out and said, 'We know what...
More than 1,000 police and firemen battled the blaze for three days before bringing it under control. The toll: at least 145 dead, including 43 firemen, and 500 injured. Damage may run as high as $4 million. In Caracas, which depends on the plant for 50% of its electricity, Christmas lights were dimmed and elevator use was curtailed. President Luis Herrera Campins maintained a roundthe-clock vigil, and on the country's beaches where holiday crowds traditionally revel, somber Venezuelans respected a three-day mourning period by singing public funeral Masses...