Word: smoked
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...improvement in weaponry traces back to what did not go right the last time U.S. warplanes attacked Iraq. In 1991 clouds and smoke coming from Kuwaiti oil fields set ablaze by Saddam's troops forced many U.S. warplanes to return to their bases without dropping their ordnance because their laser-guidance systems could not see through the foul air. In a handwritten note he fired off to his weapons designers shortly after that conflict, Air Force Chief of Staff General Merrill McPeak said, "We need to lay down a requirement for an all-WX PGM"--an all-weather precision-guided...
...return to Vietnam and speak with those children, with the market-goers who knew my family before they were mine, and wade through fields of grass toward Ông Ngoai’s grave. I’ll stare at his picture through scented smoke. He’ll look back with his triangular face. I’ll see my mother, and the three of us will finally speak the same language...
...nose that looked like a chicken’s foot. His wide, prominent cheekbones rendered the shape of his face triangular. The resemblance was uncanny. Standing on these scratchy mats in this dank hut, I stared at Ông Ngoai through scented smoke and I could see my mother...
...difficult to find parallels for a scratcher who can hold his own so simply and easily, but perhaps his closest peer is sample-savante DJ Shadow. Shadow’s influence may be seen in the album opener “The Horror” and “Smoke and Mirrors.” Both boast uneasy guitar squalls and minor themes that emerge sounding as though a blues band had undertaken the soundtrack to a horror movie...
...terrace of the Om Hotel,beauty queen headquarters, hums with excitement. Photographers chain-smoke and chatter in French, English and Hindi. A TV crew is setting up in acorner, but the contestants, weary from the media attention, have retreated to their rooms. It's only an hour before the start of the swimsuit round, and it's raining. "Oh, my poor girls," laments Lobsang Wangyal,producer of the Shambala Miss Tibetbeauty pageant. "They are going to freeze." Wangyal stops to bark a question at one ofhis assistants: "How are we doing on the judges?" Moments later a mobile phone rings...