Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seedlings & Time. Smoke boiled 10,000 ft. into the sky; the fire raced with the wind through a deep-timbered basin towards the Boole sequoia (world's third largest) and towards the steep gorges of the Kings Canyon, as deep in places as the Grand Canyon. "If it jumps down," said Geil, "we're in trouble. That's mankiller country. If we don't catch her here, there's no stopping her. She could go for miles on both sides of the river...
...This Is a Classic." At noon one day early this month, a Sequoia National Forest lookout sighted smoke from the nearby McGee ranch. At 6 p.m., despite fire crews and bulldozers, the McGee fire topped a ridge and ran wild. Normally, air conditions at nightfall and along ridge lines slow down forest fires, but that evening hungry breezes sucked flames over the crest and down through the forest. Hundreds of spot-blazes flared up behind the fire crews, who pulled back fast. Thereafter, the fire and the fight raged for days...
...volunteer crews from prisons (including the "Stanislaus Hotshots" who fought twelve forest fires without a single convict trying a single escape). It flew in 225 Zuni and Hopi Indian fire fighters, mobilized in all 1,200 men from foresters to migrant fruit pickers. Crew bosses hustled them through smoke and heat to the fire line, 40 miles long...
...Tobacco smoke made ribbons beneath two huge, dazzling chandeliers, as Konrad Adenauer drew his steel-stiff frame close to the table...
Robles & Co. had plenty of work to do in his first week. A smoke bomb exploded in the foyer of a theater where Perón's fascist Alianza Popular Nacionalista was holding a meeting. The police announced discovery of an arms cache and two cases of railway sabotage. Unidentified gunmen speeding by in a car fired a dozen shots at two federal policemen guarding the residence of U.S. Ambassador Albert Nufer. It was reported to be the thirteenth mysterious attack on policemen in four weeks...