Hillis
Americannoun
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“Right now I think we’re down to two or three fully operational ladder trucks in the whole city,” said Dustin Hillis, chair of the council’s Public Safety Committee.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2023
“By the time I got to him, he was pretty much limp,” Hillis said.
From Washington Times • Jun. 13, 2023
Mr. Hillis, who also served on the Defense Innovation Board, said that Pentagon officials pushed back, saying, “If we can turn them off, the enemy can turn them off, too.”
From New York Times • May 5, 2023
“The proposed project is flat out inconsistent with local zoning rules and state density bonus laws,” Rich Hillis, San Francisco’s planning director, said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2023
Hillis was the dish-washer, a tall big-fisted lumberman from Maine, who, stranded at the close of an ill-starred prospecting tour, had taken temporary service in Mrs. Welsh's kitchen.
From Travelers Five Along Life's Highway by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
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