Word: rugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boys race to U.S. oilfield fires in flame-red Lincoln Continentals, fly in jet comfort to more distant alarms, and often collect as much as $20,000 plus expenses for a single job. For all his flamboyance-he indulges his fondness for red in his coveralls, safety helmets, office rug and secretary's hair-Adair is methodical about his business, carefully notes and catalogues everything he learns from a fire "so as to have a little nugget handy in our minds to lick a problem next time it shows...
...drills present constant danger to "life and limb." When the clarion tones of the alarm sounded, one unsuspecting 'Cliffle fell down the stairs. She was on cructhes for weeks thereafter. Another girl reacted quite differently. While shaving her legs, she cut an artery--all over the living room rug...
...meanest mobsters in the U.S. is a small, tight-lipped hood from Brooklyn named Joseph ("Crazy Joey") Gallo. In 1959, when he met Robert Kennedy, then counsel for Senator John Mc-Clellan's rackets-investigating committee, Crazy Joey examined Kennedy's office rug and offered his professional opinion: "It would be nice for a crap game...
Today, from an office on Manhattan's West 57th Street, Anka runs a musical empire that includes Paul Anka Productions, the Spanka Music Corp. and the Flanka Music Corp. A rug on the reception room floor has an immense orange anchor woven into its grey background, symbolizing the most improbable theme song in the history of Tin Pun Alley: Anchor's Aweigh, with which Anka opens and closes his performances...
...have refrained from any recriminations which might tend to underscore it. Some School Committee hopefuls, however, have raked over the past loudly and come up with what amounts to an articulation of emptiness. Their inability to locate any real dirt which the incumbent Committee might have hidden under the rug only serves to indicate that Cambridge has a decent and improving school system, abetted by a progressive School Committee...