Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plunged nearer to Dresden. Still another surged up the Autobahn toward Berlin's southern gates, in a drive aimed through the Cottbus rail center. Hard fighting raged inside the walled, medieval town of Guben, communications center 65 miles southeast of the Reich's capital. Great clouds of smoke, rising from fires set by British and American airmen, beckoned them...
...commuting train four young girls daily ride from Newark to Princeton Junction. The oldest of them is not over 16. Each will smoke two cigarets in this half-hour ride...
...could see without going farther what Manila had suffered, foresee what it was going to suffer. This was a city of desperate hunger. It was also a city destined to more destruction. The demolition charges of the Japs already thundered south of the Pasig and tall columns of black smoke had begun to rise (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
There was still more to be seen in the streets as the staff party visited the Presidential residence, Malacanan Palace. Then Douglas MacArthur stopped for a glass of beer at San Miguel brewery; after that he headed for the front, toward the smoke-shrouded Pasig River...
...148th Infantry (part of Ohio's 37th Division ) back from the Pasig River. The flames licked around Bilibid Prison, forcing evacuation of hundreds of civilian internees. All night the city was wreathed in fire. Next morning, as the sun burned coppery red through the pall of smoke, the two battalions of the 148th picked their way through debris and embers to the Pasig again...