Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realized that it was hit when I saw a long thick trail of smoke and then fire break out," said Arkoudas. "The pilot was obviously trying to keep control, and I think he tried to make a wide sweeping turn, all the while losing altitude rapidly. I thought he was going to make it onto the Struma plain. He didn't. About 1,500 ft. off the ground the airplane disappeared in what looked like a big flash explosion, although I heard nothing. The next thing I saw was a mass of debris falling straight down." In that mass...
...Greece to Turkey. The man who originally charted the course for El Al, Captain Stanley Hinks, 35, was at the controls. Among his passengers were twelve Americans, all New Yorkers on their way to visit friends and relatives in Israel. Captain Hinks's last message, radioed from the smoke-trailing Constellation, "We are going down in flames. Trying forced landing...
...Georgy N. Zarubin, Soviet Commissioner to the New York World's Fair, and signed up a team of seven musicians, including Oistrakh and Gilels. He even booked Carnegie Hall for six evenings. Then the U.S.S.R. signed its nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany, and the scheme went up in smoke...
Powell lost more than the tussle: his amendment was defeated in the committee, which went on to approve the school-construction bill. After the scrap, both men tut-tutted the whole affair. Said Powell: "Cleve Bailey and I smoke cigars together." Said Bailey: "The whole thing never happened." As Bailey made the denial, he showed reporters a half-inch cut on his right wrist, his only wound in the fight...
Along Lake Huron's rocky northern rim, where the Canadian Pacific railroad and the Trans-Canada Highway skirt the jack pine forest, blue smoke from smoldering brush fires hangs lazily in the hot, still air. In a raw new clearing the bright steel of a mine headframe cuts an angular pattern against the sky. From the smooth blacktop highway trucks laden with lumber and machinery waddle off toward mine sites deep in the bush. A scattered army of engineers, diamond drillers, airplane pilots, and hardrock miners is turning 900 square miles of lake-pocked wilderness into a billion-dollar...