Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campus to enforce the order. Early that morning, summoned by a report that the student-union building was being looted, police moved in and arrested several before sniper fire from other campus buildings pinned them down. Then the Guard acted. Supported by tear gas delivered by helicopter and smoke spread by a light plane, 500 Guardsmen swept across the campus in a dawn assault, clearing the dormitories and rounding up more than 200 students. Neither the police nor the Guardsmen, one of whom was wounded in the action, made any further arrests. They did confiscate a number of weapons found...
...apoderados, or impresarios, led by Plaza Monumental's Livinio Stuyck, scarcely care. "Cheap cigar smoke has been replaced by the scent of perfume," complains one critic. Women drawn by television occupy more and more corrida seats; so do camera-lugging tourists. Neither group complains about increases in ticket prices of as much as 80%. Neither knows the difference between the "comfortable" Galache breed of bulls they see and the brave but seldom-seen breeds like Pablo Romeros, Tulio Vazquez and the legendary Miuras, who have killed seven matadors in modern times, including Manolete...
...week. Malay mobs, wearing white headbands signifying an alliance with death, and brandishing swords and daggers, surged into Chinese areas in the capital, burning, looting and killing. In retaliation, Chinese, sometimes aided by Indians, armed themselves with pistols and shotguns and struck at Malay kampongs (villages). Huge pillars of smoke rose skyward as houses, shops and autos burned...
...administrators gave the order to fight a fire 150 miles out in the wilderness. Each firefighter picked up a pack, a plastic tent, a sleeping bag, and a huge, double-edged Pulaski ax or shovel and climbed into a rickety DC-3. The air was so filled with smoke that for much of the flight, the men could barely see the wing tips. At the bush landing strip, they saw sooty veterans who had been swinging their axes for 15 hours a day, lying exhausted in the shrubs or simply staring at the clean newcomers...
...bodies quickly became caked with accumulations of sweaty soot, but no one had the energy or the tolerance of cold to wash in the glacial streams at night. It became almost impossible to keep feet dry in the spongy moss. On the fire lines, the thick gritty smoke dried throats out quickly every morning, but the quart of rationed water had to last for ten hours, so most men simply endured the dryness...