Word: acrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boulevard. Three months ago Mapo was a bustling, cheerful sycamore-lined thoroughfare with a doubletrack trolley, grocery, wine and tea shops and a sprinkling of residences. This morning Mapo wore a different look. The burned and blackened remains of the boulevard's shops and homes sent clouds of acrid smoke billowing over the city. Buildings still ablaze showered sparks and ashes high into the air to cascade down on red-eyed, soot-faced marines...
Nepszava's own improvisation on what happened:"The Washington Concert Hall was filled with . . . acrid, choking smoke. The public bolted for the exits, the musicians threw away their instruments and Mitchell, the bold and path-breaking composer with the true American spirit, groped on the floor in complete darkness, coughing and spitting with tear-filled eyes-he was trying to find the baton he had dropped...
...Korean war had knocked both major political parties off the track. Old issues had vanished in a puff of acrid smoke. But by last week the politicians were getting their wheels under them again and were even blowing some preliminary whistles...
...freshman member of the Joint Chiefs, he had stepped into his job four months ago when he became Chief of Naval Operations, in an atmosphere acrid with controversy and resentment. He had brought to the nation's highest military council something that had been too much forgotten in the jealous and unseemly interservice fights over unification-a grasp of international strategy, military history and geopolitics. He had, in fact, some of the broad-gauge character of men like Clay, Eisenhower, MacArthur-a type of mind which, on the record, West Point seemed to produce more often than Annapolis...