Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighboring countries. On the contrary, it is China that is suffering from the subversive activities which are openly carried out without any disguise by the U.S." Why didn't the delegates come and see for themselves? "We have no bamboo curtain, but some people are spreading a smoke-screen between...
...morning last week a stately B-36 flew on a steady course more than 40,000 feet above the Nevada wastelands. Miles ahead and 10,000 feet below, Sabre jets flashed back and forth across its path, laying down a grillwork of drifting smoke lines. Then the jets turned and sped out of danger. Two minutes later the big bomber released a bomb triggered to explode six miles in the air. There was an orange-white flash, then a fireball about a half-mile in diameter, a shock wave that danced to the ground 75 miles away, and a giant...
...years, Galileo grubbed away in underpaid mathematical teaching posts without losing his love of learning or his abiding contempt for the ossified scholars of his time. He subscribed delightedly to a painter friend's proposed coat of arms for pedants: "A fireplace with a stuffed flue, and the smoke curling back to fill the house in which are assembled people to whom dark comes before evening...
Talk about realism! I took one look at the cover and felt the sensation of Mr. Meany's cigar smoke in my nose . . . Congratulations to Boris Chaliapin...
...When a blow like this hits," said a county agent in southeast Colorado, "the whole sky turns brown like the smoke from a great prairie fire. Everything is horizontal, and the dust is everywhere like scorched flour. The cattle are bunched with their tails to the winds. Sometimes it gets so bad that mud balls form on the animals' noses and eyes, and birds and animals are choked to death. I've seen hawks downed by the dusters. The lights go on at noon, and the wind whips out grain and grass and fences, and the tumbleweeds...