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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Franklin entered politics. The awful cigar smoke of strange men drifted between them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Way Things Are | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...women, unaware of the plane, were walking down the fairway again, chatting. Their caddy, off to one side, saw the Corsair bearing silently down from behind, billowing smoke. His warning shout was carried away by the wind. The women did not have a chance to turn their heads before they were struck and killed by the windmilling propeller. The plane plowed on across the green sod, crashed into a pine grove and burst into flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Crash Landing | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

Homeward bound to Los Angeles, the S.S. Bright Star was leaving the northern reach of the Philippines when the watch saw dense white clouds of smoke bursting out of the bosom of the Pacific. The Bright Star's skipper reported to Manila that an underwater volcano seemed to be erupting in the vicinity of Didicas Rocks, uninhabited islets some 70 miles off the coast of Luzon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birth of an Island | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...Force plane took off from Clark Field last week with a group of newsmen. From a distance, the flyers could spot a towering column of smoke and steam that cut through the haze like a high-piled thunderhead. Closer in, they dropped down to observe green acres of ocean that were boiling and rolling. In the center of that vast caldron, breaking 250 feet above the surface, the crater of a new volcano could be seen belching clouds of gas and great black boulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birth of an Island | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...comic-strip world of Li'l Abner the unthinkable is always happening. But few readers ever expected the most unthinkable event of all: the ("gulp") marriage of Li'l Abner to Daisy Mae. Though Abner has been close enough to the altar to whiff the smoke from the cigar of self-made Magistrate Marryin' Sam, Cartoonist Al Capp always stepped in, in time's nick, with a save. Once, at the crucial moment, a gas explosion blasted Abner into a tree out of Daisy Mae's reach. Another time, after Preacher Sam had completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Unthinkable | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

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