Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giant fist had poked up through mud. Jets of flame burst through the debris. Jagged boulders soared through the air; good-sized chunks of rock landed a mile away, and smaller fragments covered a good three miles. The ground shook as if rocked by an earthquake, and the smoke of the TNT blacked out nine square miles of Utah...
...major miracle when any one man knew what the various cameras were doing at various times. In an attempt to keep the herd together, networks set up short-wave telephones, walkie-talkies, telephone switchboards, messenger squads-everything in the signal handbook except carrier pigeons and smoke signals...
...smoke marijuana? "Because it kicks. It's just like being a lush only you don't have a hangover and you're not sloppy and getting sick and maybe going out and driving a car and killing someone like a lush. And it's cheaper than Scotch. Two or three people can get high on one joint [marijuana cigarette]. Of course, you can take bennies [Benzedrine] or dexies [Dexedrine], but they make me too nervous. I'm a hog. I don't just take one. I take three or four. You can get hooked...
...fear of U.S. conduct in Korea had been piling up in Britain like loose gunpowder on the floor of a fireworks factory. The surprise news of the big U.S. air raids on North Korea's power network was the spark that set it off. The explosion belched smoke and flames through Britain's House of Commons...
...Midland Park, N.J., 17 miles from Manhattan, most residents along the railroad tracks hated the smoke and soot. But William White, who was born in Midland Park in 1897, was an exception; he liked the smell of train smoke. As he grew up, he spent his Sundays sneaking along the Erie tracks, hopping rides. The neighbors were scandalized, but Billy thought of himself as a dedicated railroader. At 16, fresh out of high school, he got a job clerking for the Erie...