Word: fireproof
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Edward, like many of Kennedy's Celtic charmers, is tough and fireproof. He saves his wife but discovers that the disaster has transformed her into a perpetual mourner, a woman as cool and distant as a piece of Victorian cemetery statuary. In contrast, Edward defies fate with...
...sampler of historical vignettes from two of Ricky Jay's publications, Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women and Jay's Journal of Anomalies...
...America First sentiment disturbs many Americans. The other day Kansas City lawyer Ilus W. Davis, a civic leader and former mayor, had lunch with two fellow Kansas City businessmen. One of them had won a contract to install a new sewer system in Cairo, and the other was offering fireproof grease to the Hungarian market. Says Davis: "If we took foreign trade out of Kansas City, we'd be in total depression in 48 hours. It has come over a long period of time, piece by piece, but we sure like...
Like many Americans, Rusty Wallace likes to take the car for a spin on a Sunday afternoon. But Wallace is hardly your typical Sunday driver out on a jaunt in the countryside. Helmeted, buckled up and clad in a fireproof jumpsuit, he averages about 150 m.p.h. in his 670-horsepower gold-on-black Pontiac and is usually hotly pursued by a roaring pack of heavily decaled Chevys, Fords and Chryslers. A Wallace outing, in short, is like a scene from the current Tom Cruise movie about stock-car racing, Days of Thunder. And no wonder: Wallace is the world-champion...
Lurking in ceiling tiles and insulation, wrapped around heating pipes and boilers, asbestos -- that once beloved fireproof mineral, now dreaded as a carcinogen -- is virtually everywhere in American buildings. Communities and companies around the country have been spending millions of dollars in a race to remove the lethal stuff. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that at least 733,000 public and commercial buildings and up to 45,000 of the nation's 100,000 schools contain asbestos in a potentially dangerous condition. While the cost of removing it could reach hundreds of billions of dollars over the next...