Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When questioned as to why the smoke of our gasoline fire had not been noticed earlier, Mr. Douglas replied with the typical contempt in which a sailing enthusiast holds "powderpuff" sailing: "We didn't think it unusual-power boats always smoke like that...
...plain-speaking Governor called for an open fight between Willkieites and anti-Willkieites; he does not want another smoke-filled room. He said...
...first day of street fighting in the town, death lay around every corner. Smoke shells from mortars painted ribbons above the rooftops. Machine guns stuttered viciously from every house. When the Canadians came close through the nightmare flame and explosion, the Nazis taunted them in English: "Will you give up now?" The Canadians' answer was a Hemingway phrase ending with the word "bastard...
...into the night, crossed the waters to Cape Gloucester on New Britain's western tip. Early in the morning after Christmas, naval guns pummeled the dim Jap shore, waves of Army Liberators and Mitchells raked the enemy's defenses, laid a screen of TIME, JANUARY 3, 1944 smoke bombs. Minutes later the first landing barge hit the beach. Out spilled U.S. Marines, tough veterans of Guadalcanal, under the command of Major General William H. Rupertus...
...director, Mickey still mugs like a tic-ravaged chimpanzee in hopes that Cinemactress Garland will louse up the take with a laugh. An example of the Rooney wit occurred during the shooting of Babes in Arms. While Judy was catching a nap in her dressing room, Mickey planted a smoke-pot at the doorsill, bawled "FIRE!", and dashed a glass of water in her face as she sprinted out. Sometimes Miss Garland retaliates. When, making Girl Crazy, she appeared in white calfskins, Mickey quipped: "You look like a vanilla ice-cream cone." Miss Garland measured Mickey's scarlet-chapped...