Word: hydrant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that prevents the car from moving) to the left front wheel. Their reason for putting a grip on Ham was Jordan's failure to pay $110 worth of parking tickets he has accumulated since last August. His violations: parking illegally during rush hour, in front of a fire hydrant and twice in no-parking zones. It was the second booting for Jordan. The first was in December 1977. Jordan offered no excuses. Said he with an abashed grin: "I paid those tickets just as soon as they told me about them...
Fred Carlson is a stocky, sandy-haired man whose yellow rain suit gives him the appearance of a fire hydrant. He is standing in the doorway of the deer-checking station at Clinton, N.J., watching a cold rain that has fallen intermittently throughout the day. As a pickup truck driven by a man in a bright orange cap and jacket pulls up to the station, he puts down his soft-drink can, slips on a pair of heavy rubber gloves and steps out into the wet to watch while the team of state employees swing into action. The routine, already...
Alfred Kahn, outspoken head of Carter's anti-inflation program, reflecting on his days as a dean at Cornell University: "You may have heard that a dean is to a faculty as a hydrant...
...shots and the wail of a car horn. Next day, learning of the double shooting, she was certain the passing stranger had been the killer. When detectives questioned her, she recalled another vital detail: she had seen a cop tagging a cream-colored car parked illegally near a fire hydrant one block from the murder site...
Shortly after dawn, some 50 FBI agents ghosted into the Bethesda neighborhood, concealed in cars, vans and a trailer. At the prescribed hour, an agent dropped the bait, a dummy payoff package, beside the hydrant. For the next hour or so, all was tranquil. Several children passed the hydrant on their way to skate on a nearby pond. One boy spotted the package and stopped, but a husky man emerged from a brick house and ordered him on his way. The man began to rake leaves around the house. Several times he approached the package but did not touch...