Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live, for the most part, as they did in the 1860s. Their women wear flowing skirts copied from those worn by wives of frontier cavalry officers. Their shelter is still the "hogan," a windowless, one-room log structure with a hole in the dirt-covered roof to let out smoke. They still live far from streams because unfriendly spirits inhabit them; most must haul their water from one to 15 miles...
...Lake City, Denver and San Francisco crackled out a message pregnant with fear: "United 608 sending blind [i.e., calling any station because of emergency]. We have baggage afire aboard this airplane. We are going into Bryce. Don't know if the fire is out yet. We have a smoke-filled airplane...
...last May in a DC-4 crash near Port Deposit, Md.). What caused the baggage fire was a question which might never be answered. All the baggage of Flight 608 was loaded into belly cargo pits through which passed no gasoline lines or electric wires. The pits carried automatic smoke indicators and extinguishing apparatus. It seemed unlikely that matches, cigarette lighters or other ordinary objects in the passengers' luggage could have set the ship afire...
...after day, week after week, a warm haze hung over the states of the northeastern U.S. Maple and sumac painted the hills and shed bright, crackling drifts of leaves. Offshore, the sea was blue. Streams ran gently or dried up, and at dusk the smell of dust and wood smoke perfumed the air. No rainclouds obscured the sun or the bright autumn moon. Then, last week, nature exacted her tribute...
...wanted to shoot her down. But he only shot photographs with five camera guns. Through his radio he reported: "Rocket dropping away in a glide ... a steady glide . . . still gliding . . . it's exploded. . . ." Vicky had not exploded. Her rocket motors were starting up with a belch of black smoke...