Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jury understood, perfectly. In 38 minutes, Leo was free. Brooklyn justice had prevailed. Actually, the .verdict had been agreed on in five minutes. But, as one juror explained: "We wanted to have a smoke. We didn't want to rush into this thing blindly...
Into Zion. Landing in Palestine is a touch-&-go operation. The vigilant British patrol is composed of coast guard stations on 24-hour watch, motor launches and cutters, radar posts. If a ship eludes all these, the authorities may throw a smoke screen around a suspected landing place, then intensively search nearby homes and fields. "Illegals" who are caught are herded into a concentration camp. The Jewish Agency for Palestine, recognized as spokesman for world Jewry, negotiates for their release. Usually the British deduct the "illegals" from the regular quota for immigrants (1,500 a month), before freeing them...
...handful of Londoners - stenographers, shopkeepers, even some Foreign Office toffs -collected about the familiar area now cleared for action. Lieut. Mellor and one sergeant walked into a public convenience marked "Ladies" (where the dynamite plungers had been installed). There was a hush, then Annie exploded, and greyish-black smoke shot up into the clear, rain-washed sunlight...
...Party labels won't mean much," opined Kelly yesterday, between puffs of cigar smoke, "particularly when there's a large and unknown vets' vote." He comes from Norwood where he can be assured of strong Democratic backing, while he hopes to make inroads in conservative Wellesley with his Harvard degree and College connections...
...time, in other respects, was not kind to Greenwich. Like an ugly fungus, London crept around King Charles's royal park. The city's smoke blinded the telescopes, corroded metal parts, covered lenses with soot. Electric railways interfered with magnetic observations. Worst were street lights, whose glare outshone the Milky Way. Only British astronomers could have hung on so long...