Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first only the crew, the longshoremen and the local fire department troubled about the Grandcamp. But as the smoke rolled blacker, some 200 people gathered at the dock to watch. By 9 a.m., the fire fighters, who knew something about the explosive fury of nitrate, figured they had better move the ship out into Galveston Bay. Twelve minutes later it was too late...
...greatest admiration. Although a rebel to the core, past master of the concrete-pipe-and-plate-glass school, Wright nonetheless remains an individualist devoted solely to personal artistic triumph. The greatest glory for Gropius must always be the ideal of an organically-planned community, free from slums, smoke, and congestion and their atendant social ills. Near his residence in Lincoln (a severe-lined affair of his own design atop a windy hill) he has pointedly noted in the Village Common model of Concord and Lexington a bygone "human scale small enough for each citizen . . . a scale which we have lost...
Again the prisoners were twelve. The Russian's face relaxed. With a third sputtering match he lighted his papirosa and placidly blew smoke toward the tense Germans scurrying home through the gathering dusk...
...Business." You peer inside a tobacco and cake shop on Nankwan Street. It is a cubicle of dried mud and sticks, windowless, papered with yellowing sheets of the Liberation Daily. Proprietor Yang Huan-chang, a snaggle-toothed elder of 60, greets you as "Comrade," invites you in for a smoke...
...being always on the lookout for what has never been seen." Once, asked to give a lecture on his art, Magritte instead painted a picture of a pipe and captioned it This Is Not a Pipe. He explained: "Very easy. It is not a pipe because you could not smoke with...