Word: fireproof
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...magician came to camp and gave a show. He even put on a fireproof suit and ignited himself, but there was no applause. Later, when the magician was in his trailer making it with Randa, Glen stayed outside looking at maps. He found one of a place called Idaho, and some picture books about a lady named Wonder Woman who lives in a city called Metropolis that is all shiny and white and where people can fly. He asked the magician about...
TELEVISION SETS. Some 10,000 TV receivers a year catch fire, most of them color sets. The risks are greatly increased by poorly insulated wires or other flaws. Partly as a result of the publicity generated by the commission, many manufacturers have lately agreed to install fireproof components in color sets...
Calling it "a symbol of American imperialism," the protestors twice set fire to the Bank of America building. Bank officials, anticipating trouble had previously locked money and important locuments in the fireproof vault where they escaped damage...
...million issue at 7% this month. They found no buyers at 6% in July for two issues of $30 million and $17.5 million. The money is needed for a program of closing and replacing 42 slum schools, all of which were built before 1907, and are not fireproof...
Plainly, the Arab leaders were playing politics with the mosque fire. It scarcely seemed to matter to them that an itinerant Australian Christian had confessed to setting the blaze. Nor did Arab leaders bother to note that Al Aqsa compound, far from being fireproof, had been the scene of blazes in 1949 and 1964, during Jordanian rule. What did matter was that, because millions of Arabs reflexively held Israel responsible for the latest fire, guerrilla organizations were strengthened in their hard-line anti-Israeli positions. Arab governments adopted correspondingly tough stances in an effort to match the extremists' thunder...