Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Auschwitz, he said, "We could tell by the color of the smoke whether those being burned had been starved to death or still had flesh on their bones. If they had starved, the smoke was black. If it was white, they still had flesh...
...Black Smoke. The three refugees were typical. Slight, nervous Arthur Woloski had the number 166773 tattooed on his arm. His parents perished in Nazi gas chambers. His own knowledge of Nazi concentration camps was thorough: it showed in the black gaps in his white teeth, the bayonet wounds and whip marks on his shoulders and ankles...
Treading Water. Halvard Lange would need courage and the ability to keep his feet on the ground if he were to cope with the U.S.S.R. He showed he had both when, the morning after the party, he wiped the slate clean of a lesser problem. Standing in the smoke-filled Oslo officers' club beneath a foot-high wall inscription of the Norwegian kings' motto, "Alt for Norge" (All for Norway), Lange voiced his final no to the Swedish-Danish suggestion of a Scandinavian neutrality bloc...
...Buddhas and their disciples, the foresighted brought along a few electric heating pads to sit on. One evening a fortnight ago, one of the artists forgot to flip the switch before he left. Next morning, a party of schoolchildren on their way to visit the shrine saw clouds of smoke billowing from the temple's gracefully curved old roof...
Then came a new headmaster-a big, twinkly-eyed Episcopal clergyman named Albert Hawley Lucas. He had been a Marine private during World War I, later assistant headmaster at Pennsylvania's Episcopal Academy. He dressed in tweeds, liked to smoke pipes, played goal on the faculty soccer team. The boys at St. Albans soon found themselves calling him "Chief...