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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Summer School students were driven from their room at 3:30 a.m. yesterday when a smouldering mattress filled the suite with smoke. Janet Schumann, a resident of Grays Hall 53, noticed the odor of smoke in her bedroom and turned on a fan to clear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mattress Fire Puts Two Students From Room During Night | 7/30/1963 | See Source »

Fireman Gilbert's character and personal style are marvelously well suited to his role as a rearguard battler, a staver-off of the future. He is, says an official of Gilbert's union, "oldfashioned, unsophisticated and basic." He does not smoke or drink, and rarely swears. He once joined a country club but soon quit because he disapproved of the drinking the other members did. His recreations center on his home in a suburb of Cleveland: broiling steaks in the yard, playing pingpong, showing home movies. He and his wife sometimes have guests for square dancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Beyond the Last Mile | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...straw hut at the edge of a sugar-cane field, six miles north of Port-au-Prince. But this time someone tipped off Duvalier. A swarm of government goons surrounded the hut and set fire to the field. The Barbot brothers and three henchmen stumbled out through the smoke and flames-smack into a hail of bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: The Living Dead | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

Water Upstairs. Downtown nuclear plants are attractive for several reasons. They pour no smoke, fly ash or combustion gases into a city's overburdened atmosphere. Since they are close to load-centers, they need no long and costly transmission lines. What is equally important in crowded urban areas, a two-year supply of uranium fuel for a million-kilowatt plant can be stored in the space of an average living room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Energy: Atoms Downtown | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...speed crept up to 32 m.p.h., and she went winging across the surface of Long Island Sound like the hydrodynamic sea bird she is. Then-shades of the Ancient Mariner!-the debut was dampened by another hard-luck story. Off Hewlett Point lay a disabled cabin cruiser with smoke pouring from its engine compartment. t was the Bobbilee II, owned by Investment Banker Robert Lehman, and aboard as Lehman's guests were Movie Mogul Samuel Goldwyn and his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Just Above Water | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

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