Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thank You, Mr. Molotov." Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov was somewhat nervous when correspondents entered a room paneled in Karelian birch. He held a papirossa (cigaret) near its lighted end, and the smoke curled about him as he read an announcement...
...fighting fronts, G.I.s yelled wildly, pounded backs, fired guns, drank hoarded whiskey. On Okinawa the night was lighted by millions of tracer bullets as men fired rifles, machine guns, antiaircraft guns. Green and yellow flares glared in the darkness. Ships offshore, fearing a Kamikaze attack, laid down a smoke screen, opened up with antiaircraft guns. Veterans had seen nothing like it during the whole battle for the islands. The celebration had tragic consequences : six men were killed, 30 wounded...
...first bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima (pop. 344,000) and its great quartermaster depot raised a great, mushrooming cloud of dust and smoke which no reconnaissance camera could pierce. It was no propaganda flash in the pan. General "Tooey" Spaatz and his new chief of staff, Major General Curtis LeMay (see below), were ready with the atomic wherewithal to give Japan the awful rain promised by President Truman. That rain was bound to make the war shorter than it would have been. But how much shorter...
...tight, smoke-filled cavern of Manhattan's Café Society Downtown, hot-jazz addicts often have a cozy feeling that they are spectators at a big-league preview. In his Greenwich Village boogie basement, Proprietor Barney Josephson has introduced (or given a Manhattan-sized helping hand to) such competent performers as the Golden Gate Quartet, Josh ("One Meat Ball") White, Baritone Kenneth Spencer, Georgia ("Her Nibs") Gibbs, Hazel Scott.* Last week it looked as if Barney Josephson had found another...
...left Osaka with two engines severely damaged; the crew bailed out near Sofu Gan, 350 miles off the Japanese coast. Three planes (two PBYs, a B17) which were near by to spot such trouble marked the survivors' area with smoke bombs. The survivors opened their dye markers, which colored the water green around each man. The B-17 "Dumbo"* dropped a 1½-ton, two-engined Higgins boat by parachute. Two men crawled into the boat, picked up the other survivors. The Dumbo radioed a submarine, which reached the Higgins boat next morning. One man was lost: the flight...