Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, from the wall of smoke and swirling dust on the close horizon, broke the first bolts of doom. Russian shells and rockets showered, then rained, then poured. There had never been such a mass of Russian guns. Through the storm came dazed, staggering, wildly running German soldiers. After them came the Red Army tanks...
...ship from which I had recently been detached. I had the excruciating experience of watching a flaming furnace which contained many of my friends. Seven Jap planes got through the fighter screen. Six were shot down, but the seventh crashed my old ship. It poured a column of smoke 300 feet high. Through the black an occasional explosion pitched roaring flames...
...little before 7 to get the Vice President's breakfast-always fruit, milk and toast. She had given up trying to find a maid. Almost every evening she cooked supper, sometimes sighing a little over the dearth of beefsteak, her husband's favorite dish. She does not smoke; her husband does not approve of women with cigarets...
...little eight-landing-craft task force then withdrew and waited for the time fuses to work. The 85-pound charge went off like a popgun. It was disappointing. Then the "battleship" really erupted. A flat piece of steel, blew up like wastepaper in a column of grey smoke. Concrete chunks showered the water for hundreds of yards around. From a hole on top, reinforcing steel pieces stuck up like pitchfork prongs. Smoke poured out of everywhere-from the sallyports, vents, turrets. If the concussion didn't kill the Japs, Colonel Soule (promoted to brigadier general the next...
...networks, plus BBC, CBC, and some 30 individual U.S. radio stations, had reserved space in the Veterans' Memorial Building for daily, on-the-spot reports of the public sessions. There were also elaborate plots to get inside the smoke-filled committee rooms - and the extra-special plans grew fancier as the opening day approached. Samples...