Word: extinguisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole picture, Secretary Dulles felt that the U.S. and its allies "can face the future with new confidence" if they adhere to policies of firmness. Said the President: "In a word, we will stay strong, and we'll stay vigilant, but we're not going to extinguish the hope that a new dawn may be coming, even if the sun rises very slowly...
...Council's action, one of the first to alleviate the city's parking problem, followed a near-fatal apartment house fire in Cambridge on Sunday night which meant over 50 residents fleeing before fire trucks could come close enough to extinguish the blaze...
...Fair Trade' pricing," said the report, "may enable distributors to extinguish price competition . . . 'Fair trade,' when used as a device for relieving distributors from the rigors of price competition, is at odds with the most elementary principles of a dynamic free-enterprise system."Congress should repeal the Miller-Tydings law, which exempts price-fixers of name-brand products from antitrust action, and the McGuire Act of 1952, which makes a minimum-price agreement signed by one retailer with a manufacturer binding on all retailers in a state. Said the committee: "As a result of local enabling...
Churchill's opposite number in France, Paul Reynaud, was a man of "innate loyalty and pluck." But the men who stood closest to Reynaud were, in Spears's eyes, a diversity of wet blankets with a single aim-to extinguish the fire in their Premier's heart. The chief among them...
...exposes the old man's imperfect faith by selling him a lock and a money belt, and giving him a counterfeit-detector as a bonus. The confidence-man gently chides the old fellow, "since in Providence, as in man, you and I equally put trust." "Let me extinguish this lamp," he says, and as he leads the old man off into the darkness, the confidence-man is no longer a smooth-talking Iago turned riverboat swindler, but the Devil himself holding the whole earth in his black hand...