Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what should be done. Senators Kennedy and Quayle defend their $4 billion jobs program bill as sufficiently different from the much criticized CETA program to make it worthwhile. Their bill would forbid local governments to use the federal funds to hire their own employees, such as policemen or firemen. Local businesses would also have a say in setting up job-training programs, thus ensuring that prospective employees were not trained in skills that were no longer in demand...
...historic cold and 30-m.p.h. winds left Chicago streets hushed and nearly deserted. The most prominent and telling sound was the blare of sirens cutting through the frigid city air. Firemen fought eight major fires on Sunday night alone. One on the city's West Side, ignited accidentally by a homeowner who used a blowtorch to defrost his frozen plumbing, ultimately destroyed 15 houses. The fire department had to cope with frozen hydrants and bursting hoses as well as the wind-whipped fires. Retreating from a flaming house, one dispirited fireman kicked at a useless ice-filled hose...
...long Johns, four sweaters and three pairs of socks. On top of that I had blankets and a quilt. I still woke up and was so cold I cried." In New Hampshire, where nearly a foot of snow fell in two days, the storms' dangers were taken seriously: firemen in Nashua (pop. 67,865) urged that the town's schoolchildren be conscripted for a day to shovel out buried hydrants...
That show of strength by the authorities last week was directed against cadet firemen who had staged a peaceable eight-day sit-in at the academy. The cadets had been demanding the same academic reforms being sought by the estimated 100,000 students who had gone on strike at 80 institutions of higher education in Poland...
...also a sign that the Polish Politburo, while as cautious as ever in handling the student rebellion and the wave of wildcat strikes that has swept the country in the past two months, could be pushed only so far. The cadets received such firm treatment because firemen in Poland are subject to military discipline and, like police forces, are under the authority of the Ministry of Internal Affairs...