Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed interested in everything the ship's crew did. Standing at the rail one sunny morning, he watched the ship's company solve a battle problem, intrigued by the smoke bombs. He told the enlisted men first about the atomic bomb-casually, as if chatting with old old friends, at chow...
...Smoke from the hotbox eddied beneath the locomotive. The Great Northern's west bound Empire Builder, pounding hard for lost time in North Dakota's bronzed wheat lands, ground to an emergency stop just beyond Michigan City. A few miles back, the Empire Builder's second section was coming in out of the east. A flagman ran the few hundred yards back to Michigan City to flag it, but he never made it. Section 2 hit the Michigan City curve with its exhaust drumming, plowed slam-bang into Section...
...hours-after Tibbets had been decorated for his deed-Hiroshima was covered with a giant, mushrooming cloud of smoke and dust. When reconnaissance photographs were at last obtained, they showed 4.1 square miles-60% of the city's built-up area-destroyed by fire and blast. There was no crater in which the blast effect would have been largely wasted; the bomb had exploded well above ground. How many tens of thousands of Hiroshima's people had perished was not yet and might never be known...
Every U.S. soldier was mobbed by Chinese, by more hands than any G.I. could shake, more gifts of.cigarets than he could smoke, by boundless gratitude in cries of "To hsieh, to hsieh-Thank you, thank you very much!" and "Mei-kuo ting hao -America is swell!" One celebrant was asked: "Where will you be in a month?" He answered for China: "Not Chungking, not much. Nanking! Nanking! Nanking...
...ultrashort radio waves used in radar can be focused in a beam, are reflected by solid or liquid surfaces, travel with the same speed as light (186,000 miles a second). But for "seeing" distant objects, radio waves have a great advantage over light: they penetrate fog, clouds and smoke, reach out to far greater distances than the naked eye. And unlike light, radio impulses can easily be controlled to give an exact, automatic measurement of the distance to the detected object...