Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world will not stop spinning to hear the answers. It had better not, because Author Connelly's untidy muse has not bothered to tie up every loose end. Characters muster on whim, and for the same reason dissolve like smoke; promising bends in the plot lead nowhere at all, like garden paths. This should bother no one but the literal-minded reader, who is seldom found in a chaise longue anyway...
Three fire engines, including a book-and-ladder truck, roared into the quad, but all they found was a lot of smoke and what fireman George Carvahlo called "delayed ignition in the oil burner...
...fire had apparently been burning for quite a while, but it went unnoticed because the Cliffles thought that the smoke was the usual incinerator...
Running Out of Bridges. In the days after the lull lapsed, U.S. planes, almost without letup, prowled north of the 17th parallel. Carrier-based Skyraiders and Skyhawks plastered petroleum-storage facilities at Phuqui, 125 miles south of Hanoi, sending braided columns of orange flame and black smoke billowing hundreds of feet into the air. Navy jets took potluck, strafing targets along highways, rail lines and riverbeds from the 17th parallel to a point only 80 miles from Hanoi. Air Force Thunderchiefs made the deepest penetration yet by U.S. warplanes, streaking up to the Red River Delta town of Ninhbinh...
...single blinker flashes in the darkness. The voices of fighter pilots mingle with the staccato rat-a-tat of machine-gun bullets: "I see about 40 bandits . . . Red, where are you? Dusty, Dusty . . . Dusty's gone in." Then the big, 16-in. guns belch out billows of multicolored smoke...