Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baby Satan already had its motors running and was veiled in blue exhaust smoke. Five of us wormed our way through the hatches into the seats, adjusted our crash helmets and plugged in our earphones...
There were Japs in that tangle. One infantryman suddenly stood up and calmly fired his Tommy gun downward into the brush. Two others stood by with bayoneted rifles poised. A grenade went off in a puff of smoke. Other soldiers around seemed inattentive, looking off across an area of broken palms where heavy firing was going...
...blown up 300 yards from us. Tied up just before us was another tanker; it could blow up any moment. 'Let's get out of here!' I shouted, and we climbed to the top of a nearby building and looked over the fiery panorama. Through the smoke we counted eight ships already burning fiercely. The entire center of the harbor was covered with burning oil and thousands of tongues of flame licked up through the smoke. Occasionally we could hear faint cries of help come over the water. 'There are a lot of poor wretches dying...
...Clapper learned his trade in the hard, competitive school of the wire services. At 23, a cub in Kansas City, he joined the United Press, four years later scored a notable beat on the choice of Warren Harding in the G.O.P.'s smoke-filled room. He ran the Washington beats, was the U.P.'s chief in the capitol for five years. His Scripps-Howard column, started in 1936, quickly built an audience of 10,000,000 in 187 papers...
...were famously good and deservedly famous because he himself became so excited that he would suddenly break forth, "Pucklike, into a shadowy dance, swift, graceful, unreal." Another favorite of Alexander's, in fact his idol, was Alfred Lord Tennyson, who did nothing more spectacular than to walk and smoke with his publisher the meanwhile booming aloud his new poem...