Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double enjoyment was the keynote as a weed-shortage frustrate, whose name must forever remain buried in oblivion and the records of the Cambridge Fire Department, blossomed forth in Lowell House Saturday night with an ingenious scheme for getting more smoke out of a smoke...
...especially if made in a frontal attack on the Ruhr. The Germans seemed to fear landings north and south of the Ruhr, aimed at quick envelopment of that vital industrial basin. Particularly, they seemed to fear the British Second Army, which, D.N.B. screamed, was moving up to Emmerich under smoke screens with 80,000 to 120,000 men and lavish bridging equipment...
...many other ways, Monty and Dempsey are unlike. Monty is abstemious; Dempsey likes an occasional drink and a frequent smoke. Monty sometimes acts like a prima donna; Dempsey never does...
...into the bulldozed hillside to afford maximum protection from Jap mortar and artillery fire. It consisted of two long dark green tents plus two operating rooms about 10 by 20 ft. which the Japs had built as concrete rainwater cisterns. The air inside was stuffy with stale cigaret smoke mingled with the smells of dirt and blood and sweat. But the rawboned Division surgeon, Commander Richard Silvis, was very proud of his operating rooms...
Zhukov also could do something. Where the Germans were not watching so intently, he built up an explosive force east and north of Stargard. Last week he touched it off as part of a double blast. When the smoke had cleared, the stunned Germans found that the Russians were on the Baltic at two points and had lanced Pomerania into three segments, accomplishing a vast double encirclement. The probable result: destruction of the 200-mile Pomeranian and Polish Corridor front, from which the Germans might have launched an attack on the Russians' long northern flank...