Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vesuvius was too quiet. For days the evil mountain had brooded, had hardly puffed a breath into the sky. Then the giant belched. Up from the crater roared towering pillars of smoke and ash. Down from the crater's lip licked tongues of molten stone...
...radio's possible usefulness as a ground-level detector came when experimenters noticed that a ship moving between a transmitter and receiver interfered with radio waves. The basic radar instrument had three main elements: 1) a short-wave sender-receiver which could bounce back a beam, through clouds, smoke or rain, from a small object (e.g., a plane or ship) as much as 130 mi. away, 2) a vane to determine the object's direction, 3) sensitive electronic tubes to measure the object's distance by timing the echoed beam, which travels with the speed of light...
...Never in warfare have air forces concentrated so much destruction on a target of comparable size in a single mission. . . . Today we fumigated Cassino, and I am most hopeful that, when the smoke of today's battle clears, we shall find more worthy occupants installed with little loss...
...Katyusha strikes, nothing lives." Newsmen guessed: it is a multi-barreled, electrically operated rocket gun, set roughly at a 45° angle. Last week U.S. movie audiences saw newsreels of the capture of Gomel, goggled at shots of Katyusha's rockets, streaking like lightning through clouds of dense smoke...
...others, as careful and painful as the probing of a complex wound, to climb a bunker and clean out its far side with rifles, flamethrowers, grenades. There is the weird, exquisite variety of individual expressions of skill and fear, which are the cross-texture of the violence of combat. Smoke, ruined palms, a boundless sense of death choke the screen. Men quickly fire into blindness, take quick cover, each moving jerkily with a quality of loneliness in the midst of action with which no loneliness of peace is comparable...