Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coal country, at Institute, W. Va., 30 newsmen gathered last week to see something new in the way of a chemical plant. From a distance, the $11-million factory looked like many another-a mass of storage tanks, pipes, warehouses, and above it all a thin wisp of smoke. But close up, it was like nothing else in the world. Amid the maze of gurgling pipes and steaming valves, scarcely a worker could be seen. Staffed by only 50 men-mostly chemical engineers-the plant runs continuously, 24 hours per day, with scarcely any need of human attention...
...grey outside Radcliffe's Bertram Hall yesterday morning, even though the sun was shining. As residents of the Annex dorm left for their 11 o'clock classes, billowy clouds of black smoke poured forth from windows and doors of the house across the street...
...first alarm brought six fire trucks roaring down Cambridge's streets. Crowds of students watched the battling firemen confine the flames to one room. Although the blaze could not escape the room in which it started, smoke oozed under doors and through windows and caused serious damage to other rooms. The fire brought no damage to nearby buildings...
...small, such as a slight mistake in wording an announcement. And hacks may be heinous, such as forgetting a plug or mis-naming a record or forgetting to give record credits to the store lending records for a show. And there are tech hacks too; when the P.M. announces "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", for instance, and the tech girl plays "Blue Skies"; or when a record starts with an eerie screetch, or when a 78 record in played at 33 1/3 speed...
...instead of a blinding blast of whiteness, viewers saw a pinpoint of white, surrounded by an oval of blackness. Three minutes later, the nearer cameras on News Nob were back in operation, televising the mushrooming of smoke as it climbed into the sky. The TV spectacle itself was anticlimactic, partly because the white glare produced blackness on the electronic tube. But the man responsible for the coverage had made television history...