Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pictures of Terry, mostly on horseback. One of her memories is of Terry Allen as a little boy, legs akimbo on a horse, riding off to maneuvers with his father and his father's men. One of Terry Allen's memories is of himself learning to ride, smoke, chew, cuss and fight at the earliest possible age. According to his biographer, The New Yorker's A. J. Liebling, Terry once found a playmate crying. The playmate explained that his mother had just spanked...
...British pulled off their little raid last month (TIME, July 12), the Cretans thought their day had come, but at the request of the British they held their hand. They stolidly watched a minor engagement between the island troops and the raiders. They saw precious supplies go up in smoke as the British fired dumps. They gloated inwardly at the damage to airfields and roads. They knew what it meant in the end-more hostages shot at dusk and buried in a common grave at the edge of a village. But they had gone through that many times. When...
...shell hit the top of the hill. A dark lump flew up with the smoke and blasted dust and went higher and fell in a gentle arc. A man screamed: "Help! help! help! help...
...station, putting on steam, finally roaring along at breakneck speed. When workers get down to work, they do so to the crash of jazz-band disks. Girls keep time by wiggling their hips on their stools, somehow manage to control their machines. Jack & Heintz associates are also permitted to smoke, receive a dole of free doughnuts. They get one free hot meal per shift, unlimited free vitamins. They even have free vacations, which are apparently spent dancing the hula-hula in straw skirts on a sun-drenched isle off Florida...
Panic swept through the satellite kingdoms of the Balkans like fire through an old-fashioned country hotel. Dimly in the smoke and confusion the watchers saw frantic Fascists rushing from window to window, seeking escape. In the Bulgarian wing the flames licked highest. In the Hungarian part there seemed still time; people were debating what to take with them, seizing the customary irrelevant knickknacks. The Rumanian section looked hopeless. Outside stood armed Germans, determined that none should save himself at the Führer's expense. Crouched silently among the Germans were tin Greeks, the Albanians, the anti-Axis...