Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ostracized. This technique worked beautifully. Johnny too got the idea. They were against him. Ergo, he was against them. So he stabbed the leader of the class in the spine. ... A simple technique is to call the child a name. Willie, a 'sensitive' child, used to smoke during recess. Teacher . . . came up with this interesting bit of logic: Smoking is against the rules; hence the smoker is against the rules; hence he is antisocial, antigovernment, anti-American; the Japanese are anti-American; therefore Willie is a Jap . . . Willie took it literally. Soon his seat was vacant. It continued...
...When we left eight minutes later, the coast was shrouded with black smoke. We had literally devastated the great airdrome, shattered ground installations, strafed startled and fleeing Jap ground troops. We destroyed or damaged in the air or on the ground an estimated 50 Japanese bombers and fighters. Every American plane returned safely and not a single American or Chinese on the raid was injured...
...incessant beat of guns and bombs, she delivered her child, then shook her fist at the smoky ceiling and gasped: "God damn the English." All night long, dull explosions continued as time bombs went off or workmen dynamited dangerously weakened walls. By morning most of the fires were out. Smoke hung over the town; everywhere brigades of the Organisation Todt, foreign workers, war prisoners, soldiers and civilians were clearing the streets. Past them the people trudged to work. Here and there field kitchens doled out emergency rations...
Worst hit was the center of town. The Potsdam, Stettin and Yorckstrasse railroad stations were destroyed. Traffic into the Anhalt station was stopped because the tracks on the approaches were ripped up. From great piles of coal stored at the damaged Lehrte station smoke mushroomed thickly...
...whip up a very well-filmed insurrection among French villagers and lead a retreat to join a highly fictional guerrilla army."Let's scorch the earth!" cries implausible Housewife Emma Dunn. They do-and a good deal of the picture's force and persuasiveness go up in smoke. Otherwise, The Cross of Lorraine (which takes its name from its undergrounders' Guallist password) is one of the best war films that has been made...