Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin's volatile cargo-40,000 gallons of aviation fuel, .50-caliber, 20-mm. and 40-mm. ammunition, armor-piercing and incendiary bombs-began to explode. Rockets whooshed through the air. Livid white flashes tore the smoke. Gasoline gushing from open lines flowed across the decks, carried fire four decks below, cascaded over the side and set the sea ablaze...
Winston Churchill was rated the British Empire's No.1 cigar consumer (three an hour for 18 hours out of every 24). Said the rater, the pipe-smoking Earl of Halifax, Ambassador to the U.S.: "What he doesn't smoke, he eats...
Next day, the janitor smelled smoke, rushed down to the basement to find a pile of paper blazing. Yellow Pants went bounding up the stairs. Quickly dousing the fire, the janitor followed. Several boys were already in hot pursuit. Through the first floor and up to the second, more & more pupils joined the chase until the whole school was in an uproar. This time they thought they had him. But almost before their eyes he vanished again...
...Return. Ashore on Tarakan the scene was much the same as it had been when the island fell, three years and four months ago. The sullen, heat-soaked sky was black with pillars of smoke from the twice-wrecked oilfields. This time the Jap was scorching the earth...
Berliners who had sets in working order heard from somewhere in Germany a thoroughly Teutonic curtain speech addressed just to them: "Vapors and smoke trail upward.... Underneath is a sea of flame, a volcano of millions of fires and twitching shadows. Berlin, help us once more to conjure up all that you have meant!" When Berlin returned to the air, it talked Russian...