Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...physical degeneration of French youth. The present was empty and the future bleak. This state of mind was played upon by Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. Sébille, who is a jolly fellow beneath his solemn surface, reacted sharply against that philosophy of despair. What was "lost in the smoke of the past," he reasoned, had to be "recouped in the fire of the present...
Under the Smoke. Said Bob Denham, crouching uneasily in no man's land: "The act is not as bad as it has been painted. I am confident we will find that it will not be nearly as hard to get along with as some people feared...
While the smoke of musketry wreathed Bunker Hill,* a young man sat working in a library a few miles away. Two days later, he confessed to his diary that "amid all the terrors of battle, I was so busily engaged in Harvard Library that I never even heard of the engagement . . . until it was completed." Last week summer students, hunched over tables in the isolated quiet of Harvard's Widener reading room, were equally oblivious to the roar outside the windows. The roar came from bulldozers, hollowing out the foundation for a new and surprisingly modernistic annex...
...less than a minute it was all over. Someone shouted: "Stop shooting." When the thin smoke of high velocity shells had cleared, five dead Negro convicts lay sprawled on the sun-drenched ground. Of the 22 others, eight were wounded, three of them fatally. Said a frightened survivor: "They mowed them down like wheat...
...meticulous copies of the famous Whistler signature: a butterfly with a sting in its tail. Sitting on either side of their hero at a life class, they seldom looked at the model; their eyes were fixed on the Master's drawing. Sometimes Whistler would roll a cigaret and smoke it; the Greaves brothers solemnly copied him, puff for puff...