Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guam-based B-52s blasted the sides of the target. Then, swooping in over startled water buffaloes and silent paddies, helicopters brought in troops of the 173rd U.S. Airborne and the Royal Australian Regiment. The clearing in the trees was soon a blur of yellow red and green flare smoke, darting transport choppers, and prowling Cobras (armed helicopters). A battery of the Royal New Zealand Artillery moved up by truck. Finally, as a heavy rain began to fall, the Vietnamese paratroopers swooped down among the rubber trees in the biggest parachute assault in Viet Nam since 1963. Soon the troops...
With 60,000 words already ghostwritten Michael Chaplin was suddenly having some second thoughts about the unfilial opus due out next month called I Couldn't Smoke the Grass on My Father's Lawn. Father Charlie had decided long ago that he didn't like the fumes of his beatnik boy either, but even with the family feud Michael was beginning to worry that Grass was a bit thick, asked a London High Court justice to suppress the book because it exploited "the piquancy of a situation where the son of a famous man is shown...
...issue during the past year which involved the psychiatric services, as well as the medical section of the Health Services, was the running controversy over drugs and their use at Harvard. While estimates of the percentage of Harvard students who take drugs--and specifically who smoke marijuana--ran as high as 50 per cent and as low as one or two in the newspapers, most members of the Administration belittled the extent of the problem...
...Rolling Stones are getting the TV message, but they don't like it: "When I'm watching my TV, and that man comes on to tell me how white my shirts can be, well he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me." The Stones manage to sing with nervous intensity and snigger at the same time...
...some grenades, and out popped four willing prisoners. Suddenly another burst of gunfire came from the hole. Big hole, the marines shrugged, tossing in more grenades. When the concealed V.C. responded with still another fusillade, a U.S. demolition squad provided a real blast, using dynamite this time. When the smoke cleared, the marines clambered down into the hole, discovered to their amazement a limestone cavern over six feet high and 250 feet long. It was littered with the bodies of 66 Viet Cong, all dead from the demolition charge-the largest single kill for U.S. troops since they arrived...