Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shells whispers overhead to crash down among the enemy in an endless, earthshaking, invisible whiplash of steel. Then the U.S. warplanes arrive, diving just ahead of the APCs to rend the forest with their 20-mm. cannon and 2.75 rockets. The APCs move forward into the smoke, are stopped again by a pocket of fire. The U.S. commander barks into his radio. In response, five miles away a battery of huge 175-mm. guns elevates slowly, and systematically begins to destroy the remnant of resistance...
...size jungle becomes a desert piled with brush. Occasionally, there is an enormous explosion as "the tunnel rats," having excavated a Viet Cong burrow, blow it up. When it is all over, only the stench of cordite mingling with Cu Chi's grey dust and the drifting blue smoke of bombs lingers over the desolation. Cu Chi will not soon harbor Viet Cong again, at least...
...teen-ager who goes to church twice on Sundays, doesn't smoke, drink or dance, addresses his elders as "sir" and "ma'am," and never even says "shucks" in the presence of ladies, Jim Ryun inspires an awful lot of antagonism. New Zealand's Peter Snell, who was then the world record holder for the mile, explained why on the eve of last summer's A.A.U. championships. Snarled Snell: "I resent having anybody that young in my kind of race." He resented it a good deal more next day, when Ryun won the A.A.U. mile, beating...
...followers to "stay at home and keep calm," while police rushed into trouble areas with tear gas, clubs and rifle butts. When police swooped down on the home of onetime Rebel Adviser Hector Aristy, guards inside opened fire and kept it up for half an hour. When the smoke cleared, two guards were dead. Once inside, police found a large arms cache, but Aristy had apparently fled. At week's end police and Dominican troops seemed to have things under control...
...does not smoke or drink...