Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alan K. Brown '54 and Frederick L. Hall '54 noticed smoke from the basement at 10:15 p.m. They ran over to the fire station across the street to find that Sergeant Toomey of the Yard police had already turned in an alarm...
...Connecticut, which Senator Joe McCarthy invaded, shouting his charges against the State Department, in an unsuccessful effort to torpedo Brien McMahon and William Benton. But south and west, where voters may have discounted a good part of what McCarthy said, they nevertheless decided that where there was so much smoke there must be some fire. (The Democrats had argued that so much smoke only indicated an arsonist.) In California, victorious Senator Richard Nixon, who had routed the Democrats' left-leaning Helen Gahagan Douglas, confidently announced: "My victory is a mandate from the people of California for some changes...
...closing the gap either. I was at the extreme effective firing range, but when I saw I couldn't gain on him I led him with my sights and held down the gun trigger. After two or three seconds of my fire his engine section area began to smoke and then his engine exploded. The MIG pilot did not get out, and his plane went into the ground...
Sitting in a battalion command post, Lieut. W.C. Hill thought he was dreaming. "I heard a bugler . . . and the beat of horses' hooves in the distance. Then, as though they came out of a burst of smoke, shadowy figures started shooting and bayoneting everybody they could find...
...Smoke-Bursts & Soot-Falls. As a comic strip, Capp's Li'l Abner is not the most popular in the U.S.: it can be accurately described only as one of the top five-a group which also includes Little Orphan Annie, Blondie, Dick Tracy and Joe Palooka. At least two of them, Blondie and Dick Tracy, claim more readers, but the promotion departments of national syndicates fire off such billowing smoke-bursts of conflicting claims that the truth of the matter has long since been buried under a soot-fall of verbiage...