Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used every bit of energy I ever had. I didn't have enough visibility. I couldn't make out anything. I don't think that if I had to go around we would have made it. Things were getting worse instead of better. I could smell smoke in the cockpit...
From above, diving at a 45° angle, the Super Sabre struck the DC-7. its right wing slashing through the right wing of the airliner. United's pilot barked: "U.A.L. 736! Mid-air collision over Las Vegas! 736!" From the jet came the cry: "Mayday!"* Then, trailing smoke and fire, the planes dropped and crashed to the desert floor of wild flowers. All 47 in the DC-7, the two officers in the F-100F were killed...
...smoke-hazed dining room of Las Vegas' Desert Inn last week, the supply of ready money would have staggered the earnest searcher for a low-rate bank loan. Free Scotch and fast talk was all it took to con a crew of well-heeled high rollers into coughing up $266,000 worth of bets. For his cash, each gambler was buying a crack golfer in the "Calcutta" auction before the Desert Inn's sixth annual Tournament of Champions. The man who owned the winner would get a whopping $95,760 share of the pot; even a lowly seventh...
...Lemon of the College of Medical Evangelists in Loma Linda made a joint report to the California Medical Society. Basis of their study: 8,692 patients admitted to eight Seventh-day Adventist hospitals in southern California in 1952-56. Of these, 564 were Seventh-day Adventists who did not smoke or drink because their religion forbids, while 8,128 were of persuasions that take no stand on tobacco or alcohol, so many, but not all, both smoked and drank. All patients had either cancer or coronary artery disease, or had suffered heart attacks...
...committed suicide, his mining trust fell to dust, and her speed-happy brother apparently died in a car crash. But her real worries are all boxed up and neatly hidden away in the beach-house chimney-oodles of stolen jewels. So long as they do not go up in smoke, the lady seems secure...