Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking across the border to Soviet Armenia, Turkish natives saw a huge plume of smoke rising from the Communist territory. On that same day-Sept. 2, 1958 -just short minutes before the smoke rose, Allied radio monitors around the southern ring of the U.S.S.R., taping their daily quota of Russian radio talk, recorded the grim conversation of five Soviet jet fighter pilots...
...smell smoke in the auditorium...
Crocks of Granite. In Detroit, while fire blazed in the kitchen of Frank Collins' Bar, while the building filled with smoke, while firemen dragged hoses through the barroom and water sloshed on the floor, seven steady customers refused to budge from their bar stools...
...serve as a needed tonic, by raising once again the religious question in all its jagged complexity: like Bergman's knight, one finds it equally hard to believe and not to want to believe, as he sees the church's agents light the faggots round the stake, and the smoke disappearing into the vacant interstellar spaces beyond...
...Englishman here (Kenneth More) is a gentleman's gunsmith who heads west with a reasonable expectation of doing business-where there's gun smoke, they must use firearms. Beyond that, the only thing the man knows about the U.S. frontier is that Jesse James is "a frightful female." He is therefore rather astonished when several improperly dressed individuals with bright paint daubed on their faces begin to circle the stagecoach on horseback, uttering unmannerly cries in a foreign language. Outraged, he orders the carriage to halt, stomps out to give the Indian chief-whom quite by accident...