Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...heavy style makes the book more difficult to read: Wagner tells us that Zechariah Chafee is a man "around whose head the faggots of fire in the battle for personal liberty have flamed unchecked for decades...
...much more immortal than Mao or Stalin. Jealously of America's wealth, symbolized by the 200 million bushels of what and 100 million pounds of butter in storage of the Community Credit Corporation; fear of our power, both military and economic--these are the things which feed the fire of hate for us all over the world, and which make bearable to half the world the immeasurable oppression of totalitarian dictatorship; for, what won't we bear while we struggle? Jealousy and fear, these are the causes of aggression, and these we must fight...
...interchangeability but not the splitting of tha gross receipts. This is an impossibility. By opening the common rooms of those Houses with smaller dining halls, all the Houses are approximately equal in the number of couples permitted entrance under the fire laws. Under your plan a central House would sell tickets to an overflow crowd, send the overflow to fill a less strategically located House without the adequate compensation for the overflow. This is quite unfair to the less centralized House...
...realized that. But every man in the fleet, from the Admiral to the smallest page boy, was tensely alert . . . 'Tierra! Tierra!' bawled [the lookout on the Pinta] . . . The ship's biggest piece of artillery, a 'lombard,' had been standing, loaded and primed, ready to fire a signal the moment there was news . . . 'Bang!' went the lombard. North America had been discovered...
Tired Thumb. In Central Falls, R.I., a young woman explained why she had turned in a false alarm: she was on a country road, with no prospect of getting a lift home, figured the fire department would give her a ride...