Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disappeared behind a grey overcast, and a great stillness fell over the eastern Colorado plains. After that a freezing wind rose, banged barn doors and snatched at the smoke from lonely ranch houses. It grew dark, and salt-like snow began hissing across leagues of sere buffalo grass. Then, for 48 hours, a blizzard-the worst in 33 years-moaned down out of Wyoming with nothing to stop it but fence posts and cottonwood trees...
Broadway Baby. The U.S. had never seen anything quite like Jimmy Walker. He grew up in Manhattan's Greenwich Village with the cigar smoke of Tammany Hall in his nostrils. His father was a Democratic alderman. But Jimmy's heart always belonged to Broadway...
...days later, Committee One discussed admission of Eire, Albania, Portugal, Trans-Jordan and the Mongolian People's Republic. The overheated committee room, with its entire contents of delegates, tables and sorely tried hopes, seemed to swim in a bluish haze of tobacco smoke. Cuba (Guillermo Belt) dozed off, woke up a quarter-hour later, rosy-cheeked and refreshed. Later, South Africa (Jan Christian Smuts) went to sleep. Declared Liberia (C. Abayomi Cassell): ". . . We will not move the big powers-each of them has its own fish...
...Holy smoke," was the word on the lips of all loyal Indians on the morn of the first Harvard invasion of their territory in half a century. They clenched their fists in anger as they read that Cambridge pranksters had poisoned the squad's candy ration a fight from a "feminine admirer...
...then on, says Author Lane, Beatrix "deliberately buried Miss Potter of Bolton Gardens and became another person." She invested her royalties in farmland, flung all her energies into raising sheep. She invented a trap for catching maggot-flies, wrote knowledgeably to friends about housewifery and cooking ("Wm. prefers blue smoke before the bacon is laid on the frying pan"). As the years passed, her gentle, shy face assumed something of the granite features of Father Potter. She often wore big wooden-soled clogs, and skirts of hard, crude tweed, woven from the wool of her own sheep and fastened...