Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cincinnati Kid is Steve McQueen, cast as a cool, professional poker player with his eye on the long chance. Under a circle of light in a smoke-clogged New Orleans hotel room, The Kid sweats it out with a full house while The Man (Edward G. Robinson) ups the stakes on what may or may not be a straight flush. The pot runs to thousands, but this game means more than money. The Man is Lancey Howard, undisputed king of stud poker for more than 30 years, and he knows that the crusty young challenger across the baize means...
...epochal performance started innocently enough, as Willig totalled 450 after his first two balls. But the third ball was sheer poetry. The sandy-haired senior lit all four bumpers almost immediately, caromed the silver spheroid against the century target several times, and made brilliant saves repeatedly. When the smoke had cleard, Willig had surpassed 1900 points -- and everyone at Tommy's lunch knew he might be seeing history in the making...
During the fire, four students had to make a dash for safety through a flaming hallway. Three firemen were forced out of a sixth story window by heavy black smoke and were dramatically rescued when a ladder was extended to them...
Actual fire damage was limited to the sixth floor. The living rooms of three suites were totally gutted, another was blackened by smoke, and the Naylor suite suffered extensive fire and smoke damage...
...Smoke and intense heat spread far down the sixth floor corridor, charring doors and blackening walls. All four bedrooms of suite 601 were singed and blackened by smoke and heat which billowed up from the living room of the suite, located on the floor below. Bedrooms of the other three suites escaped extensive damage either because they were located on the floor below the living room or because closed doors blocked the smoke and heat...