Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comment ça va? While the smoke from the guns curled up into the haze, Henri Hoppenot, De Gaulle's representative in the U.S., introduced his chief to the State Department's Protocol Chief George T. Summerlin. The three men walked over to a little group of top French and U.S. military men. "Very glad," said De Gaulle, in his rehearsed English, stiffly shaking General Marshall's hand. He passed on to General Arnold, Admiral King, and Lieut...
...four-block charge of TNT blew black dust high into the air and made a terrific noise. Big waves of black smoke and debris billowed out of the cave. But this was a well-constructed hole which went deep into the earth and heaven knows how far back. About all that came to the surface was the wooden framing of two-inch planks and a cheap suitcase filled with shirts and silk underwear and an empty cloth pocketbook...
...storehouse, staggered back as the full power of 10,000 ripening Camembert cheeses oozed out the opened door. The officers commandeered a quantity of precious gasoline, saturated the building and its contents, stood back in satisfaction as one more apparent hazard to the health of troops went up in smoke. The frantic, howling owner did not speak enough English to make them understand that his stinking hoard really smelled just right...
...point close to Caen, British artillery poured 10,000 shells last week. But through the smoke that enveloped Caen British officers might still be able to pick out vestiges of the 1,000-year-old Romanesque towers and Gothic spires that once thrust up over the city. If so, they were probably the last men who would ever see them. For the architectural treasures of the city, which Henry Adams (Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres) once called a "Romanesque Mecca," seemed doomed. Among them were...
...wonderful shot of a German train, moving toward dynamite and demolition: hidden in a soft-blown, shining vista of heavy summer leaves, it sprouts a smoothly advancing, dreamlike tree of smoke...