Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tracers flamed into the trees and bamboo thickets beyond the sand. Suddenly they stopped, and the Liberators poured over, bombing and laying down smoke. Small landing craft and barges zigzagged through the surf to land infantry...
...splendid city of Buenos Aires was thriving, cocky, getting richer by the minute. Busy factories billowed thick, black smoke. The Calle Florida, flashier than ever, glittered with the smart new shops of refugees. Pin-striped upper-crusters gathered at 8 p.m. in the Plaza Bar, sipped the abundant Scotch, ribbed the preposterous military Government and told with detailed animation whom they slept with the night before...
...Abandon Ship." The fire started among the cotton bales. But the fire grew. At 4 p.m. the smoke suddenly changed from brown to milky white and a shaft of orange flame shot high into the air. The ship's bridge melted, her crazed masts toppled overside. The fire brigade chief ordered "abandon ship," swiftly followed his men onto the dock. At 4:07 the first explosion came...
Number Two. Fires sprang up everywhere. Smoke turned the afternoon into night. Police, firemen, troops poured in to fight fire and panic. Just 30 minutes after the first explosion, a second created still more havoc. Fire threatened to engulf a city of 1,500,000. U.S., British, Indian troops fought flames for five days. As they rushed from one danger spot to another, the Americans sang Deep in the Heart of Texas. Sappers demolished hundreds of buildings to check the fire...
Civilian officials had already destroyed one last sign of U.S. sovereignty in the Philippines. They had burned the U.S. currency which had been transported from Manila banks. Washington, Lincoln, Grant, the Great Seal, the signature of Henry Morgenthau Jr., all had gone up in smoke. Now the last sign of sovereignty was to go. There was nothing more for men to hold...