Word: smoked
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...front lines of the war, you learn about America's strategy by staring at the smoke. Above the peaks and ridges of northern Afghanistan last week, the plumes billowed thick and black in long, ragged lines-calling cards of the B-52 bombers that each dropped 25,000 lbs. of ordnance on Taliban positions. For Northern Alliance fighters scanning the sky from the Taloqan front in the far north to Jabal Saraj, near Kabul, those massive clouds of smoke, dust and debris could mean only one thing: the long-awaited American command to take the fight to the Taliban...
...middle, which is a pretty good place to be." But the disgruntlement impressed Rumsfeld enough for him to devote much of his briefing Thursday to a history lesson on the deliberate pace of previous U.S. wars, and to pointedly remind his audience of what precipitated the conflict: "The smoke is still rising from the World Trade Center." The White House has given Rumsfeld the job of reassuring nervous members of Congress; he spends two hours every day in meetings with the press and lawmakers. "I wouldn't do it if I didn't think it was important," he says...
...critter. The noise came from behind a French dictionary, so LaFlamme proceeded to smash the book into the back of the bookcase. No luck. “Then we thought it was in the heater, so we kicked it. And nothing happened. So then we decided to smoke it out using some clove cigarettes. The fumigation was a resounding failure,” LaFlamme recounts. The sound remains a mystery...
...opened the door and there was smoke. Now my clothes stink,” said Blaise P. Huguenin...
...fire alarm went off and I came downstairs and there was smoke coming out of the tutor’s room,” said Keia D. Cole ’03, a resident of Leverett’s C-entry. “It happened last year. I wasn’t afraid...