Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brave men of the Hamburg Fire Department donned masks intended merely for protection against smoke and rolled the leaking phosgene tank into the nearby canal. Heroes, they were rushed to hospitals, given milk and other antidotes. The entire milk supply of Hamburg was commandeered for the hospitals. Some babies not gassed went hungry until more milk arrived...
...Annie Besant who had raised him to be "a new world leader," was standing upon the hilltop, chanting a Vedic hymn; he carried a flaming torch which, with a graceful stoop, he applied to a pile of carefully prepared faggots. The faggots went up in a cloud of smoke and flame; Krish-namurti's disciples, of whom a thousand sat upon the slope of the hill, drew a breath of wonder-and listened while their leader spoke to them in a soft voice...
Climbing into his little car he touched off a rocket. There was a ten-foot spurt of flame, a burst of yellow smoke, a loud report and the car whizzed away down the track. Within two seconds it was going 100 kilometres per hour (62.1 m. p. h.). Then there came fresh bursts of flame, smoke, and noise as Herr von Opel exploded more rockets. At each explosion the car lunged ahead in a fresh spurt. Its speed mounted to 125 m. p. h. When his rockets were all gone, Herr von Opel coasted to a standstill...
...beleaguered patrolmen scored a sudden and overwhelming victory at this point by calling in reserves from the suburbs and charging the mob with drawn night-sticks. When the smoke had cleared, six students were on the inside looking out, with more arrests in prospect...
...afternoon last week, just as the night shift was going down to its subterranean duty, a convulsion shook the galleries, a blast of air rushed up the shafts followed by a belch of hot, black smoke. The night men scrambled back for safety. Some were killed in the tunnels by falling roofs. Some bratticed themselves in offsets and telephoned for help. Then came the deadly "afterdamp" (carbon monoxide...