Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anthony's Hospital at Effingham, Ill. Outside, the town (pop. 8,000) and its surrounding farms slept. An operator-nun sat at the hospital switchboard, waiting for emergency calls. Out in the hall the elevator door banged open; a nun hurried from it to report that smoke was drifting in the hospital's upstairs corridors...
Politicians, hangers-on and reporters crowded into the smoke-filled city clerk's office in Jersey City. They were all assembled for a little democratic ritual. Twenty-five cops, loyal subjects of Boss Frank Hague, hovered around the old grey City Hall. Inside, Deputy City Clerk Ben Rosengard grasped the octagonal walnut box, spun it several times, then carefully pulled out a card. His announcement was just what the boys had expected: the magic box gave Boss Hague's foolproof Democratic machine the top place on the city-election ballot, as it had every time but once...
Audiences and critics liked the play, too; they called it the best of Dallas' eight-play season. One reviewer ranked it as high as anything ever done at the playhouse, where Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke had its first showing. Already slated for this summer's Edinburgh Festival of Music and Drama with Flora Robson starred, it was thought to be a cinch for Broadway production. Though the authors refused to share this prediction, Collaborator Evans sounded cautiously optimistic: "We've tasted blood. We don't want to do anything ever again except write...
...week, the first U.S. commercial installation of Fido was put into operation at Los Angeles Airport, which is closed down 5% of the time by soupy weather. After a round of speeches and fanfare, Mayor Fletcher Bowron tripped a switch that turned on the 392 burners. Billows of black smoke rose and drifted towards the nearby town of Inglewood; observers were drenched with oil droplets blown out of the burners before igniting; automobile windshields were spattered with grime...
...faced Martinet Montgomery chased Desert Fox Rommel's famed Afrika Korps 1,850 miles, from the gates of Alexandria into Tunisia. In his writing, as in battle, Monty has neither Eisenhower's scope nor Patton's dash and saltiness. Readers who want the smell and smoke of battle will not get it here. But El Alamein should appeal to chess players. Every move of every battle is explained with the logic, the patience and the bland assurance of an instructor demonstrating a foolproof system. Writes Monty: "I have always planned on the assumption of success...