Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bari itself was an incidental target. The bombers which had somehow slipped through the screen of overwhelming Allied air superiority headed for the harbor, studded with ships of a newly arrived convoy. Two ammunition vessels blew up, setting their neighbors ablaze. From other bombed ships thick, pitch-black smoke began to wallow towards the blue sky. Here and there ack-ack guns barked angrily-too late...
...thoroughness-and solidity-the whole thing is put together). ... It was a night of a full moon which half the time was lost in fire clouds, and from midnight till dawn H.E. bombs and incendiaries fell all over the City. ... In a little time great tawny clouds of smoke, rolling in a sumptuous Baroque exuberance, had hidden the river completely and there we were on the dome, a Classical island in a more than Romantic Inferno. It was far and away the most astonishing spectacle I have ever seen...
...corporal spoke dreamily of the nights in Howie Dryman's Texaco Bar & Grill across the river from Vincennes, Ind. 'I'll smoke fresh cigarets,' he said, 'not cigarets that's beat up and spilling both ends...
...foxholes at dark, between 6:30 and 7 o'clock. They could not smoke, talk or leave their stations until daybreak. Anything that moved in the bivouac area after dark would be killed. As they dug in, rain fell-the heavy, soaking, almost unbelievable rain of Bougainville that swiftly rots clothes and bodies-and turned the foxholes into sticky beds...
Good Deeds. Outside the routine work of helping to run the Coast's harbor services, TR's deeds have been numerous, if not publicized. Alfred Miller, refrigerator serviceman, saw smoke trailing from a vent on a munitions ship. Sparks in a pile of sawdust had started a fire. In time's nick Miller sounded an alarm, got credit for preventing the kind of catastrophe which devastated Halifax when a munitions ship blew up in the harbor...