Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snug-buttoned in thick greatcoats against the night cold the Generals paced up and down in the darkness puffing glowing cigarets until the sky paled and they could see. With the morning light it looked as if the plains below were on fire. Long streamers of smoke led out in parallel columns from the Italian camp to the river, then across to the mountains beyond. Dust clouds from the feet of marching...
Ninth, against false witness, shows two houses. Smoke emanating from them spells the word for truth...
...months ago a series of suicides among enlisted men at Fort Clayton, in the Canal Zone, caused Publisher Nelson Rounsevell of the Panama American to charge the commander of that post with working his men mercilessly under the tropical sun, driving them to smoke marijuana cigarets which led to madness and to death. When an Army investigation resulted in a whitewash, the post commander and the commanding general of the Canal Department had Publisher Rounsevell indicted on five counts for criminal libel (TIME...
...Freshman field is now covered with a hundred and thirty-odd candidates, but the smoke is beginning to clear, and sooner rather than later will come the cut to a practical size. However, amid the mass of aspirants a few prospects of outstanding calibro may already be distinguished...
Into a beet field just off the racing course at Santa Ana, Calif, one day last week dived a big metal airplane in a swirl of black smoke. Plunking its belly down on the soft earth it suffered no more damage than a crumpled landing gear, dented fuselage, broken propeller. Cursing darkly, a handsome young man jumped out unscratchcd after having made the fastest flight in the history of landplanes...