Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Etna, the great hump of Sicily, was just lukewarm then, with an occasional wisp of smoke emanating from its 10,000 foot cone and only the heat still left in old lava flows to hint at its previous activity...
...control and window surfaces of our B-29's wrecked, but the chances of dodging the larger chunks of falling lava (the biggest I saw was the size of a small watermelon) appeared good enough, and the natural rain from the clouds which formed under the great tornado of smoke overhead managed to allay the sulfuric fumes...
Second-Class Citizens. All over the U.S., schoolteachers told Ben Fine that they were fed up with the way their communities made them live. They longed for the freedom to marry, smoke, drink, dress and pray when and as they pleased. Many felt like second-class citizens. Said one Nebraska teacher: "The only time I am asked to visit the home of any parent is when little Johnny is in trouble...
...snowflakes recognize the kinship and are fooled into hanging on. An infinitesimal whiff is enough. In the presence of iodine vapor a single electric spark will knock enough silver out of a dime to start a snow flurry. Burning a cotton string impregnated with silver iodide makes enough crystalline smoke to cause a sizable snowstorm...
...most prominent of his contributions to the Copley exhibition is "Road to the Factory," which he terms "an abstract painting with social significance." It depicts a crowded tenament district, with a road in the background leading into the smoke-belching mouth of a steel mill...