Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago motorists lucky enough to get off to a fast start on the long Memorial Day weekend streamed out along Interstate 90. Brisk winds rippled the green field between the crowded highway and O'Hare International Airport. Half an hour later, the field was shrouded in black smoke, and firemen held hoses on a flaming aircraft engine. Police and other emergency workers stepped gingerly through scattered and smoldering wreckage, looking for signs of life. They found none...
...rescue workers carried colored metal markers on poles. With each discovery of a body, or parts of a body, they stuck a pole into the ground. As the wind fleetingly blew the smoke away, the eerie signs could be briefly seen. Some bodies were pinpointed by red markers, others by yellow, still others by black, or even wooden sticks. The field became a multicolored jumble of signposts of death...
...lawmen never came close to finding the beehive, despite a statewide all-points bulletin, although they nearly did nail Senator Gene Jones, who had chosen to leave the hideout because he had just sworn off cigarettes and was getting edgy in the smoke-filled room. To avoid the police, Jones was house-hopping around Houston. When a Ranger and another lawman arrived at the place where he was staying, the clean-shaven Jones jumped over a back fence; the police thereupon arrested his mustachioed brother Clayton and, despite his avowal that he was the wrong man, helicoptered him back...
...setting is a dilapidated gingerbread boathouse in Lebanon, Mo. The time is 1944 or, more pertinently, the limbo of time wasted. The heroine, Sally (Trish Hawkins), is 31, and a Wasp whose real creed is to suppress emotion in gentility, a twin sister to Alma Winemiller of Summer and Smoke. The hero, Matt (Judd Hirsch), is a Jewish accountant from St. Louis, a bachelor of 42 and one of life's perennial Gentleman Callers...
...Strauss can "take two guys that are in total disagreement with each other into a room and walk out later with neither of the two satisfied but both having stepped a lot closer together." One Texas-size question: Will the cajoling style that served Strauss so well in smoke-filled rooms at Democratic conventions have the same effect on Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin...