Word: myron
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...recently discovered Gassi Touil natural-gas field ... would, if it went unchecked, burn for the next century ... To avert this economic tragedy, the field's owners ... have called in daredevil Texan Paul Adair ... Flame-haired "Red" Adair learned his rare trade in 16 years with tough old Myron Kinley, dean emeritus of oil fire fights [and has] set up his own company ... Already this year, the burly Adair and his two apprentices ... have tamed 50 wells in Bahrain, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Canada and the U.S. With an affluence known to no other firemen, Adair and his boys race...
...world with his usual concoction of water and dynamite, including 119 fires in Kuwaiti wells torched by Iraq in 1991; in Houston. After World War II, the native Texan returned home from a two-year stint in the Army's bomb demolition unit to take a job with Myron Kinley, a pioneer of well-fire and blowout control. Adair later started his own business, and his exploits (an explosion in South Texas once propelled him 50 ft. in the air, and he emerged unscathed) inspired the 1968 John Wayne film Hellfighters...
...spokesperson Kevin C. Myron said Milton is “one of our trusted authorities” on air quality and public health, and added that the article “bolsters the case for considering airborne transmission in disease...
...District Judge Myron Thompson held last year that the presence of the 2.6-ton granite monument in the rotunda of Alabama’s state judicial building was an unconstitutional endorsement of religion and must be removed. Roy Moore, then the chief justice of the Alabama supreme court, refused to comply with Thompson’s order...
...forum discussion also featured presentations from Dean of the Faculty of Public Health Barry R. Bloom and Lasker Professor of Health Sciences Myron E. “Max” Essex, chair of the Harvard AIDS Institute. All three panelists collectively provided an impressive laundry list of past accomplishments achieved by Harvard faculty, students and affiliated research centers. Although Harvard has achieved many impressive accomplishments, there are undoubtedly many opportunities for making future contributions to the developing world. To help further these goals Summers should seek to provide additional centralized administrative support and budgetary assistance to interested students and faculty...