Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fire alarm called in when the smell of smoke was detected in the Memorial Hall basement at 5:15 p.m. yesterday led firemen to discover no fire--only smoke...
...unidentified woman sounded the alarm when she detected the smell of smoke in the hallway of the Laboratory for Computer Graphics...
Firemen saw smoke coming out of the air conditioning ducts, but they found no fire. The deputy fire chief considered the situation safe and withdrew his trucks and men from the building...
...poetry in the CIA, so much that is pedestrian and mean that no one but George could dare to attribute cosmic force to it. He carried it off though. He always had a cigarette in his mouth when he said it and tilted his head back waiting for the smoke to curl up over his face and the light to shine on the moistening high forehead. George was very conscious of the shameless theatricality of the pose. He practiced it, just as he practiced a Hemmingwayesque clumsiness in his speech, the careful inclusion of certain words, as though...
...night fell Saturday, the Pentagon looked like a citadel under siege. A yellow fog of smoke and tear gas hung stagnant over the grounds. Soldiers marching in front of the main entrance threw huge, ugly shadows on the thick concrete walls. Across the parking lot reserved for top military brass, down the steps, and sloping out over the rolling wall, demonstrators spilled. Some of them were warming themselves in front of bonfires made with ripped-up placards and sticks. A long line of buses with their headlamps glowing strung-out along the access roads. The air was chilly but still...