Word: fireproofed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mortar company lobbed shells across the border. Deepening Indonesia's quarrel with Britain, which is pledged to defend Malaysia, government troops in Djakarta barred British diplomats from entering their embassy, gutted fortnight ago by an unchecked mob. The guards even tried to break into the embassy's fireproof code room until they were stopped by tough, stocky Ambassador Andrew Gilchrist, who forced his way into the embassy and stood guard over the strong room himself...
After that, every horse Dancer touched seemed to grow wings. He spent $1,200 for a lame pacer named Volo Chief, won $36,000, and added a two-bedroom wing to his house. Today, Dancer's Egyptian Acres boasts a heated swimming pool, fireproof barns, and air-conditioned dormitories for the stable hands. The 55 horses in his pastures are valued at more than $4,000,000, and Dancer employs a fulltime bookkeeper to keep track of operating expenses that amount to $350,000 a year...
...separate preliminary study by John C. Collburn, assistant Director of Building and Grounds, indicated that there is a great deal of space in fireproof buildings at the University with a protection factor of at least 75 that could be increased to a factor of 100 "in most cases fairly easily and inexpensively." If ten square feet is allotted per person, the preliminary report suggested that almost 50,000 persons may be sheltered in buildings connected with the University's tunnel system...
...facts he did not like, and lacking in "sensitiveness toward public affairs." ¶ Franklin D. Roosevelt, under surface shallowness hid "a deep streak of the Dutch." He followed a principle of polarity, i.e., doing two opposite things at the same time (as Frankfurter explains it: "You build a fireproof house and nevertheless take out fire insurance...
...flame every 20 minutes, and who is it but Mrs. O'Leary there, coming out of the heat with an actual cow-trained to moo at crowds. Spectators are called upon to help firemen squirt the blaze from a hand-pump engine. Meanwhile, a cool operator in a fireproof booth turns up the hidden gas jets, then slowly turns them down as the fire subsides, leaving on view the pre-charred timbers of skeleton buildings...