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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Precept & Example. In Buffalo, visiting Fire Chief Ray Hayes sniffed smoke during a fire-prevention banquet, peered down, found that his necktie was burning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 5, 1948 | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...heading for a small airport at Shamokin. The runway was not long enough to take his 70,000-lb. ship, but the pilot might have risked a belly landing. Flyers there could not figure it out; the big plane's motors sounded all right and they saw no smoke or fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Eight Minutes to Doom | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...trouble aboard Flight 624 might never be known. There was no survivor; parts of bodies were found 450 feet from the crash.* The Civil Aeronautics Board's investigators had almost nothing to go on. Some witnesses at the scene said at first that the plane had been trailing smoke; then they were not so sure. All that was left of the plane were a few large hunks of engines, a few propeller blades, some jagged chunks of fuselage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Eight Minutes to Doom | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...rise too far and stop the patient's breathing. Usually only one injection is necessary. It acts quickly (in one to ten minutes), and relief from pain lasts from two to four hours. The patient is so comfortable that, when labor is long, she can eat, drink or smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Without Pain | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

Unreal Morning. That night in Jerusalem was the noisiest since Partition Day. Arab Legion artillery and mortar shells crashed into the Jewish quarters of the new town, kicked up clouds of white smoke and dust. Red tracers streaked across the domed roofs of the Old City. At dawn the Jews sent one last burst into the Arab positions. A shell exploded on the balcony of an Arab hospital, killing an attendant. As he was carried out of the ward, head hanging limply, a nurse whimpered: "He is dead. Did you see him die? He would have lived if the truce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Embers | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

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