Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prince replied, "I am a senior at Radcliffe. I used to keep two white mice in my room. I am an English Major. I have an Indian motorcycle." She then departed through the "stage door," a conveniently-placed window overlooking Mr. Auburn Street, for a quick between-the-acts smoke...
...crowd was good-natured, a bit rowdy, ill-clad and ill-fed. And, more than in other times, avid for the show that would lift it, not by illusion but by legitimate right, into a symbolic reminder of its own worth. As they waited, chaff flew. When black smoke poured from the palace chimney, a wit said: "Blimey, now they've gone an' burnt the blinkin' soup...
...Zealand. At 4 p.m. last Tuesday there were hardly more shoppers than clerks in Ballantyne's, biggest department store in South Island. Many of the staff, following Christchurch custom, were at afternoon tea or were just ambling back to their counters. They smelled fire and saw wisps of smoke but, told that firemen were arriving, carried on with their jobs. Then, in a twinkling, the acre-wide building was a pillar of flame. Fire broke from the shallow basement, seared the main floor, exploded upward to the second and third...
Bleeding but upright, Vail turned from the phone, pulling his Colt from its hip holster; he pumped six shots at the manacled prisoners. Deliberately, he reloaded and pumped six more. When the smoke cleared away, both men were dead...
...Vera Cruz El Dictamen had a newsbeat: a new volcano was hissing and smoking up out of a farmer's field, just as famed Paricutin did four years ago. Villagers from the interior, said El Dictamen, were fleeing the smoke and hot ashes. The A.P. picked up the story; most U.S. newspapers ran it. Last week Mexican and U.S. scientists (but few newspaper readers) heard the truth. El Dictamen had been hoaxed...