Word: hydrant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Driver Dennis Walsh made a U-turn, parked the armored truck by a fire hydrant in front of Rope's drugstore, locked the doors on a treasure of three-quarters of a million dollars, and joined the two guards at the soda counter inside. Leaving a truck unguarded is strictly against company rules, but the trio had safely sneaked coffee in Danvers many times before...
Ziegler: "It comes out like water from a fire hydrant...
...fire hydrant, an electric power pole, and a tree on Soldiers Field Road combined in succession to stop a car and two College students returning from a formal dance in Boston early yesterday morning...
...Awful?" The Apalachee School in Morgan County had only two teachers for all seven grades. Its floors were so rough, said the principal, that "the boys & girls are always getting splinters in their feet. It had no lavatory and no running water, only a hydrant in the yard and two primitive outdoor privies. "Isn't it awful?" demanded the principal. "I won't go down there." The rickety Ola schoolhouse in Henry County was not much better. Plumped in the middle of "an almost treeless field of pale dust," it had only four rooms and four teachers...