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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away. A Haganah truck or armored car looked like a tiny beetle as it climbed slowly and unsuspectingly towards danger. As the howitzer fired, Arabs waited tensely for the shell to land, bony brown hands clutching at rifles, eyes narrowed to slits. Another instant and a black mushroom of smoke grew silently out of the road. By the time the sound had echoed back, the vehicle was rolling helplessly down the precipice. From the escarpment rose an Arab cheer; one man jumped up and kissed both chubby cheeks of Captain Selim Assil, a staff officer from Fawzi's headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: War for the Jerusalem Road | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Even as the bandit feud grew, so did the sum of money that police recovered in their investigations. The figure now is close to the original $50,000 removed from the smoke-filled Coop at the beginning of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coop Gang Feuds In Jail as Police Nab Last Suspect | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Meanwhile, in the cashier's case in the front of the room. Helen Cronin was talking to a match salesman quite unconscious of the masses of heavy smoke pouring out of the kitchen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flaming Steak Brings Ten Engines To Cronin's Smoke-Filled Beerhouse | 4/6/1948 | See Source »

...stack, which was later served up and enjoyed by the tried, started a grease fire in the chimney above the stove. When the smoke began billowing out of the kitchen and over the bar into the main room, a customer sent in a general alarm, which brought the fire engines rushing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flaming Steak Brings Ten Engines To Cronin's Smoke-Filled Beerhouse | 4/6/1948 | See Source »

...Benes at his peaceful country home. They remained alone for an hour, talking. During the two intervening days Masaryk had complained repeatedly of insomnia. When he left Benes' country home for the 60-mile drive back to Prague, Masaryk offered his bodyguard a cigarette. "I can't smoke on duty," said the guard. "You can smoke with me," said Masaryk. He took a puff or two, stamped it out, and slumped in sleep. He awoke as his car reached Prague's outskirts, surprised to learn he had slept an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Hunted | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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