Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cartwright than Miss Kitty. Billy the Id has been described as an "adenoidal idiot." And until about 1890, when smokeless powder came into general use, acrobatic gun battles-with snipers falling off balconies into water trough-were unheard of, because each shot kicked up a cloud of acrid black smoke that soon blinded everybody...
...years from now this scene would have been transformed into a vista of sterile concrete and whizzing lines of smoke-spuming automobiles. It would have been, but for the intervention of a chorus of protests, some fortuitous political guillotining, and, mostly, the galvanic public relations wizardry of the man Time calls "U.S. Publicist Number One," Edward L. Bernays...
Coming in Low. A truly versatile Jack-of-all-trades, McAllister until recently loaded his own smoke bombs (with which to mark guerrilla targets), owing to a shortage of hands at his base airport in Quinhon in Central Viet Nam. But it was in the cockpit of his light observation plane that he made himself a legend of skill and courage...
...began counting "missions" by the day instead of by the flight. He was so expert at detecting guerrilla camouflage that he could spot a Viet Cong position within seconds. He flew in low-like a "goosed gnat," in the words of one of his colleagues-marked enemy positions with smoke bombs, called in hot fighter-bombers, and then got the hell out of the way. The whole business scared him almost stiff. Said he: "Whenever that ground stuff came up at me, I was the most disjointed pilot in the world, trying to get away." But he went in lower...
...sleet and snow last week caused a stirring of the earth's dull roots from John o' Groats in the North Sea to Lizard Point on the English Channel. Memory and desire were mixed with the drifting London fog, the wet pavements iridescent with lights, the factory smoke shrouding the Midlands, and files of miners with blackened faces trudging home from the pits...