Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barnard said that a mile away black smoke from six roaring fires billows 5,000 feet into the air, drifting southward out over the gulf...
Where the umpire's decision was close but right, The Lip is apt to make far more noise. "I'm just putting up a smoke screen," he admits. "Maybe the ump will call the next close...
Leaping to a telephone, the alert photographer of the Boston Record quickly got in touch with the fire department. But when the smoke eaters arrived thirty minutes later they were told that it should have been the department of sanitation...
...electric locomotive out of a tunnel, banged to a stop in a low cavern near the mine's elevator shaft. He stiffened, listened intently. He heard no sound. But a wind came out of the subterranean darkness and enveloped him in clouds of coal dust and coppery-smelling smoke. "God," he said aloud, "it's a bad windy* or an explosion...
...pleasant evening a truckload of monopoly police cruised down the main streets of Formosa's capital, Taipeh, hunting monopoly violators. They piled out, clubbed a woman who had been hawking cigarets. (This was against Chen's law, which said that Formosans could smoke only Formosa-made cigarets-from his gang's factory.) A crowd gathered. A policeman fired. The crowd chased off the police, burned their truck...