Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been brief, but in the history of the 20th Century it might prove to be a historical milestone. Far more important than the crisis itself was the question it raised for all men to read in smoke and flame: can that part of the world in which human freedom takes precedence over the powers of government live at peace with police states...
...Swedish astronomer, gazing through his telescope one quiet night last week, saw a luminous something-no bigger than a glowworm-appear on the horizon. Within ten seconds it had grown into a 90-ft.-long, torpedolike missile whose fiery tail spewed blue and green smoke. Said the astronomer: "I had visions of doomsday...
Some hurled sticks, cans, jars of preserves as the British moved them to barbed-wire pens aboard British troopships. At the Henrietta Szold, the soldiers threw smoke bombs to quiet the Jews. The Jews tossed them, back. At last the screaming cargoes were embarked. Sympathizers ashore tried to aid them. About a thousand Jews from Haifa defied the British curfew, tried to crash through the barbed wire to the docks. Tommies fired; three Jews were killed, seven more wounded...
...again four years later after the primary in 1930. "But it wasn't a primary. It was hell among the yearlings and the Charge of the Light Brigade and Saturday night in the back room of Casey's saloon rolled into one, and when the smoke cleared away not a picture still hung on the wall. And there wasn't any Democratic party. There was just Willie, with his hair in his eyes and his shirt sticking to his stomach with sweat. And he had a meat ax in his hand and was screaming for blood...
...dentist took up a hypodermic syringe "of the type used on brewery horses," and sank it in Author Perelman's gum. Then, he "snatched up his drill, took a firm purchase on my hair and teed off. . . Two thin wisps of smoke circled up ward slowly from my ears . . . [my] screams . . . rattled the windows. . . . 'Don't be afraid now,' chuckled the dentist, patting "the mass of protoplasm" that had once been a man; 'this won't hurt...