Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mosquito fighter-bomber, landing, had crashed into a parked Dakota, transforming both into a ballooning cloud of orange fire and black smoke. Out of the cloud ran the pilot, streaming flame, to shrivel and die before their eyes. At that moment Forrester realized an important fact. Ever since he had lost his wife in a bomb blast in London he had been trying coldly to get himself killed in combat. Now he knew that he didn't, after all, want...
Forty-mile distant Worcester, where the car's license plates were stolen continued to supply the most promising angles on the smoke-bomb holdup, as a squad of detectives combed the city over the weekend in an effort to apprehend the men responsible...
Ballistic exports, still examining the two smoke bombo which the robbers used to distract attention during their crime, said that the implements could very possibly be war surplus material of the type currently being distributed in New England...
...except the employees under the cover of the concealed pistol of the smaller "pock-marked" desperado realized that the two smoke bombs discharged were merely a blind for a robbery...
This accomplice may have set off the first smoke bomb. A fifth man was probably waiting to drive the getaway...