Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doughfeet were pinned on the steep, sandy slopes. Eventually they drove the Chinese off the top and dug in behind barbed wire and sandbags, hauled up on a hastily built cable railway. Thus protected, their machine-gunners mowed down wave after wave of counterattacking Chinese. Their mortar-men put smoke shells on Papa-san to blind the enemy spotters there, and U.N. planes blasted the Chinese assembly points. This week the Reds drove the Americans and ROKs back in a desperate night counterattack; but when day came, the U.N. troops won back most of the lost ground...
...result is a wonderful piece of Americana, full of the smell of beer and coal smoke-and of the potato soup on which Ma fed her brood, sometimes for weeks on end, when Pa was looking for a job or "fighting the interests" during one of the dozens of strikes in which he was privileged to take part. Pa was a formidable and handsome man-tall, erect, curly-haired and with a straight right capable of breaking a man's jaw. Ma was handsome and formidable too-once she hit a slum bully over the head with a ball...
...years since passage of the Wagner Act, Pittsburgh and the smoke-curtained western steel counties around it have become a Democratic stronghold. Philadelphia now has a Democratic city administration for the first time since 1884, is still in the emotional throes of revolt against decades of tobacco-stained Republican boss rule, and is awash with independent-minded voters...
Last week these irreconcilable vows came into conflict, and it was General Naguib who held the field when the smoke of battle blew away. Defeated Nahas summoned the Wafd Executive Council to his ornate home, announced that he was quitting, screamed at his followers to get out of the way, and then stumbled upstairs to political oblivion, crying bitterly...
...Maybe it once was. But "sometime during the war the subtlety went out of it," she says. "Now they want the song to come up and hit them in the face. You can't name me one new song that ranks with All the Things You Are or Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...