Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every kind of wigwag and smoke signal in the language of diplomacy, the Administration seemed to be trying last week to tell Chinese Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung that he had nothing to worry about from the U.S. The policymakers were convinced that the U.N. forces would win in Korea if Chinese or Russian Communists didn't butt in, and apparently they hoped that a little cajoling might keep them out. Whatever their reasoning, their pronouncements sounded like an attempt at appeasement...
...angle of about 80 degrees. I seemed to be standing on my head. At 3,000 feet, the plane pulled out of the dive, leveled for a moment, then climbed steeply to the left. When my eyes would focus again, I could see a tower of brown, dirty smoke rising from the center of the marshaling yards. May said we had dropped two of our three 1,000-lb. bombs...
...roared down toward the first tank, a Russian-made T-34, and Loranger laid a 500-lb. fragmentation bomb right behind her. The tank was engulfed in smoke and dirt. Ensign Profilet's plane followed with another 500-pounder. Just to make sure, Loranger clobbered her with a third bomb and we went after the truck. On his first run, Loranger came down with his cannon wide open, then pulled out of his dive and laid a bomb right in the truck bed. As we pulled up, we discovered he had not only disintegrated the truck but had also...
Come fire and smoke...
...said. "I don't smoke or drink. I learn more each year. Tilden won his first national title at 27, and was still winning ten years later. I'm in better shape than any of these youngsters. I figure...