Word: ashtray
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...Gardner in a house shortly after she was divorced from Mickey Rooney. Soon after, it became apparent that Hughes was not devoting much attention to her, and Rooney began stopping by. Hughes confronted Ava and slapped her. She retaliated by hitting him over the head with a copper-based ashtray, knocking him cold. He was taken to a hospital, where his agents managed to have the injuries officially listed as stomach trouble...
...Swiss authorities have rejected U.S. demands that Leary be extradited to serve out the rest of his ten-year California sentence for possession of marijuana. The Swiss felt, as one official put it, that ten years was much too stiff a penalty for "finding two marijuana butts in the ashtray of a car that did not even belong to Leary...
...blanket, fixed it, and drove out of sight in his Cadillac, headed for work. Trivial stuff, apparently, but the practiced Hailey reader knows that it may be important. In good time, surely, the author will reveal whether excessive G forces on the freeway caused the Cadillac's power ashtrays to malfunction, catalyzing a shake-up in G.M.'s ashtray division, or whether it was the electric blanket that turned savage later that day, grilling the G.M. president in a waffle pattern and creating a top-level vacancy for that bright young product-development exec, Adam Trenton...
...flying combat missions for years and boast up to 4,000 flying hours, 90% of them in combat. As a result, says General Lucius D. Clay Jr., commander of the Seventh Air Force and son of the famous World War II general, "they can put a bomb in the ashtray on your desk...
...real live girl. The work, a three-dimensional still life, is contained in a box firmly set into a tightly closed door. Every Saturday between 2 and 4:30 p.m. the breast projects from a hole in the top amongst the painted wooden models of an orange, an ashtray and a bottle of perfume-all in scale. The rest of the girl is lying on a foam-rubber-covered scaffolding, safely out of sight and usually reading a book for her graduate studies in political science at Columbia University...