Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amateur fire-sniffers voted 23 to 2 to let the place burn down. Someone, however, had already asked the local hose-and-axemen to "send a man over." He came, but he brought his friends: three engine companies, two hook-and-ladder trucks and one rescue squad. No smoke, no fire, obviously a false alarm. Whether or not the whole thing was a stunt to increase sales of the new Spring issue, which for the first time in years showed, signs of passing the figures of "The Embalmers Journal," Poon officials declined to state...
Everywhere he went, Honest John kept plugging, trying to smoke out Messrs. Roosevelt & Dewey. He gave his own opinion freely on every topic. And. although he got no credit, he won a major point during the week. He has long been on record against an international police force. When the Roosevelt-Hull blueprint was unveiled it contained no such provision...
Battleships, cruisers, destroyers stood off the coast, wrapped themselves in smoke screens and hurled steel from 640 guns. They arrived in two divisions. On the east they were British and Canadian vessels under the command of Rear Admiral Sir Philip Vian. On the west they were U.S., under the command of Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk. Never before, not at Tarawa or Kwajalein or Salerno, had a target been subjected to such overwhelming bombardment from...
...this is Texas! You grab a towel, fumble for soap and run out of the tent into the flawless darkness of a Texas morning. And what mornings! Ten million stars an arm's length above you. The air is brisk, often biting. The pungent smell of wood smoke is everywhere. . . ." From Italy: "Here I am in an old Italian house and we have a fire going in the fireplace, too. Now if I had some apples and popcorn it wouldn...
...town itself was deserted and had been heavily bombed, and to sit there, everything sort of quiet and deserted, ruined buildings all around you, shutters banging in the breeze. By this time it was getting very hot and stuffy in the tank so we climbed out and took a smoke, cleaned the brass up in the tank and stuff. Then one of the Frenchmen comes up with a bottle of wine and we all had a smoke and drank the bottle of wine. A shell lands behind the tank and sort of makes us mad so we get back...