Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stepped up to the check room in London's crowded King's Cross Station. From beneath the counter came an explosion that destroyed the check room, burst suitcases and trunks, bowled over scores of passersby, stripped the clothes from two women. As the clouds of choking, acrid smoke rolled away Donald Campbell, both legs blown off, lay dying. Sprawled around him, 15 wounded men and women, including his bride, fed the bloody pools gathering on the cobblestones...
Although the British Foreign Office categorically denied all talk of "peace" negotiations, there was still enough appeasement smoke around to make British non-appeasers increasingly suspicious that there was a fire somewhere. Early this week the "fire" was located, and it was found to be so near No. 10 Downing Street that its discovery was a Parliamentary sensation...
...buttered tea again. ... We ourselves were awash by the time the tents were up. ... That night it was just as it had been two years before. . . horsebells jingling; the howl of a dog; a voice in the distance singing a mournful song; and over everything the smell of wood smoke and grease...
Adventurer Miller tells how boys' noses are bored to take inch-wide bamboo plugs in each nostril, how a native village smells two days' travel away ("an acrid odor . . . like smoke from a bonfire of rubber boots"), how a trail-cutter can die from a cobra bite before hitting the ground. His accounts of jungle sex are more colorful if less accurate than an anthropologist's. For squeamish readers there is always the dedication: "To Mother...
Since that day, more than a year ago, the new courthouse has begun to dull with a patina of smoke and weather, the Sixth Avenue Elevated has been torn down, the "World of Tomorrow" on Flushing Meadows has grown up into a World's Fair. But Judge Caffey is still hearing the same lawsuit, still looking down upon the same bank of lawyers. On June 1, a year to the day from the opening of the case, the U. S. rested. Last week, Alcoa launched its defense...