Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen again. In another window stood a girl in a white nightgown which blazed up suddenly before she jumped. Above her, a man swayed in a panel of flame, rolling his head from side to side. Around him, guests huddled and crawled on ledges to escape deadly gas and smoke, dangled from sheet ropes over fire-belching windows, and leaped for safety nets. Some hit with such force that the nets were torn from firemen's hands. As a girl jumped from a seventh-floor window she gasped: "I hope I live! I hope I live!" Despite a broken...
...governments, customs and dress. They pan gold and hunt animals, trading metal and furs with the plains people for manufactured goods. They farm and raise sheep, spinning the wool into long capes. Yi and Miao women are heavily bejeweled with amber and jade, worked in silver. Most of them smoke long, thin pipes. Yi and Miao characters are written in a horizontal line instead of vertically like the Chinese...
...three men represented the three Jewish resistance groups in Palestine: 1) Haganah (Defense), largest and most nearly moderate; 2) Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization), and 3) the Stern Gang, both outlawed advocates of terror. For hours they argued vehemently in the cigaret smoke haze. But in the end they found no shalom...
...world's No. 1 toy trainmaker after four wartime years spent turning out $19 million worth of navigational instruments, hoped to do a $10,000,000 business this year. To do it, Lionel wanted a million catalogues to tell U.S. small fry about its wondrous new models that smoke and whistle while they work by electronics. But no job printer was able to handle the order...
...smoke-swirled office was littered with sandwich scraps, cigaret stubs and half-filled cups of cold coffee. At 5:12 a.m., two haggard, bleary men-Paul Richter, vice president of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. and David Behncke, president of the Airline Pilots Association (A.F.L.), scratched weary signatures on a truce. After 25 days, the first major U.S. airline strike was over...