Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Over the smoke-blackened gate of the giant steelworks in the Czech town of Pilsen, two notable emblems stand side by side. One is the world-renowned trademark of the century-old firm of Skoda, a winged arrow in a circle. The other is the red star of Communism. The famed plant that munitioned Central Europe's armies through two world wars is now the Skoda Lenin Works, a smoking, clanging symbol of a bold Russian ambition: to bind together all the productive skills of the seven East European satellites into one Moscow-managed economic community...
Suddenly, the Oldsmobile disintegrated into a thousand shreds of shrapnel, a blinding ball of flame, and a column of smoke 1,000 feet tall. Betancourt's car was hurled onto the center grass strip, and burst into flames. The President and his Minister managed to push open the left rear door and pull Mrs. Henriquez to safety. Badly burned, Chauffeur Valero and a presidential aide, Colonel Ramón Armas Peréz, tumbled out of the front seat...
...thrives-and gains weight-traveling; he has probably logged a greater mileage in and out of Canada in his three years in office than any previous Prime Minister. He dominates his Cabinet. He does not smoke, so no one else does in the Cabinet chamber...
...sank out of sight, a 25-mile stretch of high ground dropped 1,000 feet, and new lakes were formed. Volcanic ash rose 23,000 ft. into the sky. Seismic waves washed away 630 of the 800 citizens of the fishing village of Queilen. In the inferno of lava, smoke, fire, water, avalanche and death, the helpless victims first scurried around in panic, then subsided into resigned silence. They worked feverishly to claw the dead and injured from the rubble...
...look upon these remnants of a distant time as meaningless curiosities. Once, when soldiers of the Queen's Own Corps of Guides came upon some ancient reliefs, they decided to use them to decorate the fireplace of their mess hall at Mardan. As might have been expected, smoke begrimed the stones, so the ingenious Guides covered them with a coat of black shoe polish. Shoe blacking darkens some of them still...