Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Make It Snappy! When the ministers and their staffs filed through gilded double doors into the Salle Victor Hugo, everyone tried hard to relax, joking with old friends, shaking hands with new. The air was soon blue with tobacco smoke. Georges Bidault, apparently putting aside for the occasion the worry of trying to form a new Cabinet, squirmed agilely through the pack in his capacity of host-he failed to notice the repressed wince as he inadvertently trod on Molotov's toe. It was Molotov who set the tone by greeting his old enemy Bevin with "Davaite govorit korotko...
...months as penalty for various periods of AWOL. Behind barred windows, overcrowded to such an extent that some of the inmates slept on top of wall lockers, they served their time, and other transient GIs could observe their incarcerated friends double timing to chow, sneaking in a verboten smoke (prisoners were allotted three cigarettes a day at Lichfield-one after every meal) or standing at attention, in front of the mess hall, waiting for the rest of the detachment to dump its mess kits and fall in. They shivered slightly in the courtyard, for inmates weren't allowed field jackets...
...duplicated in miniature four days later when fire swept the 55-year-old, 150-room Canfield Hotel at Dubuque, Iowa. The Canfield fire also was discovered shortly after midnight in a cocktail room called the Red Lounge. It swept out to rage in the lobby, trapped 129 guests in smoke-filled rooms upstairs. Most escaped down ladders and fire escapes. Fifteen died that morning-two in attempting jumps into fire nets...
...salty Glasgow on the Clyde. In the evening it was the Comet from Manchester, pulling through the yards and spitting scornful clouds of steam. As the years and the big trains rolled by, Harley's dream that he would run one some day went up in the sooty smoke of Crewe. His passion for the glorious trains rotted away into consuming hatred...
Besides off-the-record glimpses of future murders, the visiting newsmen saw an exciting finish to a record-breaking B-29 flight. Just over the finish line, the B-29 plunged down, trailing smoke like a rocket, but somehow landed safely. The record? 2,000 kilometers at 361 m.p.h. with a 2,000 kilogram payload...