61. As he drove toward the building, McVeigh stopped to ignite a five-minute fuse, which soon filled the cab with acrid smoke. 62. Burning refuse, just steps from tin-and-concrete huts, breathes acrid smoke into the air. 63. By midafternoon, intense fires still burned inside the Pentagon, sending up plumes of black acrid smoke and hampering rescue efforts. 64. Cars were burned, shops looted, and the acrid smoke of fireworks hung in the air. 65. Cooking pots full of corn bubbled on small fires that filled the compound with acrid smoke. 66. Firemen removed tire barricades spewing acrid smoke, many shops were closed, and parents kept their schoolchildren home, fearing street violence. 67. Flames and acrid smoke belched from the refinery, they said in telephone interviews. 68. He spoke to reporters in a grave tone at a news conference in a Pentagon briefing room that still reeked of acrid smoke from the smoldering fires. 69. It began with Palestinians pouring out of mosques following midday prayers and clashing with Israeli troops amid clouds of acrid smoke and tear gas. 70. Many of the pedestrians held handkerchiefs to their mouths and noses as acrid smoke from the fires still burning hung in the warm, muggy air. |