Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baseball game in Houston. In the $1.50 bleacher seats (each with its own arm rest and foam rubber seat), they munched hot dogs and lolled about in shirtsleeved comfort while a $4.5 million, computer-operated air-conditioning system kept the temperature at a steady 74° and filtered smoke out of the air. Luckier fans had "Spacettes" in gold lamé skirts and cowboy boots to guide them to their reserved seats ($2.50 to $3.50), their choice of three restaurants and a private club that offered everything from "king size roast prime eye of beef" ($5.50) to that old Texas...
Hopeful Cambridge fire-watchers, their appetites whetted by the conflagrations of the past week, looked up Wednesday night to see white smoke and a red glow high atop William James Hall. Glowing with satisfaction, they knew precisely what...
...William James Center for the Behavioral Sciences, the problem was analyzed very carefully: "They were testing the air conditioning, and the steam from the roof vent condensed and looked like smoke. The red glow from the airplane warning light on the roof colored the steam. They're still testing the air conditioning and we're still freezing...
...embassy burst inward. Jagged glass bits blasted like a blizzard of razor blades through every office. The ground floor was turned into a knee-deep mass of rubble. Parked cars spun into the air and landed in twisted heaps. A crowded Chinese restaurant across the street collapsed in smoke and flames, its floor strewn with still bodies and flopping forms of the wounded. Dozens of pedestrians in a nearby shopping district were flattened by the blast. Where the car had been, there was only a smoking pit, two feet deep. Three charred bodies lay near by, and bits of pulverized...
...rocket projects. Director Michael Anderson sedately re-creates some rather tumultuous sessions of British officialdom in 1943, reducing history to a few thoughtful demurrers from Churchill's scientific adviser, Professor F. A. Lindemann (Trevor Howard). "It's a balloon," he remarks, peering through his pipe smoke at photographs of the Peenemünde launching site. And: "If it were a rocket, it could never get off the ground...