Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gunfire began immediately, the two sides firing almost simultaneously. Bullets cut swaths through the walls of the house. Blue smoke belched through the windows as those inside replied with automatic fire of their own. For nearly an hour the firefight went on, one of the most furious gun battles ever waged in a U.S. city, with at least 1,000 rounds of ammunition expended by both sides...
Staring Witness. At 6:35 p.m., as the first trace of smoke began to curl up from the dwelling, a black woman staggered out, her face puffed and cracked by the tear gas and a smear of blood showing on the back of her white blouse...
Christine Johnson got out just in time. The lick of flame was creating an inferno. Dark brown smoke shrouded the structure, then rose high enough to hide a police helicopter hovering over the scene. Sheets of ash the size of magazine pages rose gracefully into the air and floated to earth a half block away...
...west of Quneitra, and looked across the flat plain that is Syria. It was easy to feel in the pit of your stomach why the hills mean so much to the Israelis. They command the entire plain. Suddenly, as if to confirm our musings, there were bursts of dirty smoke followed by bangs. The Syrian guns were at work, and the Israelis fired back. "It is an artillery war," explained an Israeli colonel...
TIME'S David Halevy was among the first to enter. "Gray smoke enveloped the school," he reported. "Going inside, I passed a wall; on it was an ecology Slogan, FOR HEALTH AND CLEANLINESS. Lying next to the sign were two pretty, crying, bloodstained girls with chest and leg wounds. Soldiers were shouting 'Stretchers! Bandages!' and children were being carried out on the shoulders of soldiers to a first aid station...