Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stopping in Boston came out to Cambridge to see what they could see. They recorded that the College building was the salient feature of the landscape and when they approached they heard a great deal of noise. Entering it and going up stairs they found a blue haze of smoke through which could be dimly seen eight or ten students "smoking tobacco" as they put it. None of them knew any Latin, French, or Dutch, and the Dutchmen knew no English, so communication was difficult. However, they did learn that the students had no professor, there being no money...
...Infantry Stays. On the first day the Americans, behind a smoke barrage, drove into the northern edge of town. They dug in. At dusk the order came : "Tanks will leave town. Infantry will stay." During the night more doughfoots moved in. The Germans counterattacked at dawn, were held and pushed back, then settled down to a fierce defense of every house, every pile of ruins...
Major Warren C. Chapman (Nevada City, Calif.), attacking a strongly held building, called for artillery fire at a point only 75 yards from his own men. Five direct hits landed on the place. Said Chapman: "When the smoke cleared, the building wasn't there any more...
...Rapido River valley on the wider front near Cassino the Allies forced their way foot by foot across the icy stream. Combat engineers rushed in to build bridges and clear mines out of roads while German shells slammed blindly through their protecting smoke screen. Planes and barrages smote the Monte Cassino Abbey positions, but when infantrymen tried to press forward the Germans were still dug in on the mountain and pouring back murderous patterns of machine-gun fire. As at Anzio, the best the Allies could claim was stalemate...
From a trench freshly carved in the fat Ukrainian soil, Colonel General Pavel Rot-mistrov stared across the plain. In the distance smoke rose from burning villages. Buglike Russian tanks crawled forward, angrily broke up German counterattacks. Overhead, Stormoviks bombed and strafed. Before Rotmistrov's eyes ten encircled German divisions were being mashed out of existence...