Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...store's last stick of gum, he strolled the streets of Armonk, distributing packs of cigarets to astonished passersby. But back in his drugstore, he slapped his own pockets in alarm. Morosely he reached into a candy jar, ate a peppermint. He had forgotten to save a smoke for himself...
Pouf! In Charlotte, N.C., a husky fireman, responding to a three-alarm blaze, found smoke pouring from a parked truck in midtown, raised the hood, saw flames around the carburetor, bent over, blew out the blaze...
Earnest A. Hooton, loquacious Harvard anthropologist, pondered the cigaret shortage, decided: "The boys in the foxholes ... their lives endangered, are nervous and miserable and want girls. Since they can't have them, they smoke cigarets. The girls at home . . . their virtue not endangered, are nervous and miserable and want boys. Since they can't have them, they too smoke cigarets. So what happens? The briar pipe resumes its rightful place as the companion of the philosophic male whose gonadal preoccupations have vanished with the years...
Last week Americans in Paris were imitating frugal Frenchmen who roll their own, getting the makings from old butts. Three butts make a full-sized smoke. A man with only two butts has to adopt another makeshift. He borrows a third from a friend, rolls his cigaret, smokes it, gives the butt back for further...
...ship, ran low on gas and set down at a small island where the only fuel on hand was cooking kerosene. Glumly the pilot tanked up, ran his snorting, protesting engine for 30 minutes to warm up, then staggered off into the air, his exhaust stack belching flame and smoke. The home base heard him coming from afar, "like a model-T Ford climbing a hill in reverse." But he wobbled to a safe landing...