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Word: ashtrays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Struggling free, the Begum screamed for help, began throwing anything handy at the frenzied bodyguard. In turn, Abdullah hurled a heavy glass ashtray at the Begum, missed, and then was at her again, still shrieking: "Fein sidi!" The uproar brought the Begum's Swiss secretary from next door, and the hotel porter and the chef d'étage came stumbling into the bedroom, pulled Abdullah off the nearly strangled Begum, hustled him outside. A doctor was summoned, and the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: The Djinni in the Bedroom | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...Vieri. And of course I must think of Belasz and Tolespa, and dear little Treyispa: and Grondi and Bartolo. God, Felipe," Zendie said, "those afternoons in the piazza, and the evenings on the Bierenspitzenplatz, and the mornings at La Dolope," the girl read, tapping her cigarette drily over the ashtray. The white-caps are like diamonds, the girl enunciated...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Writing Courses at Harvard | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

Visiting Fireman. In Middleton, England, a psychiatrist advised a father-concerned because he had caught his twelve-year-old son smoking in bed-to put an ashtray on the boy's bedside table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 21, 1958 | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

Russell dropped his cigar into an ashtray, and donned his wide-brimmed gray fedora for the trip from the Commander Bar to the dining room...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: The Compleat Politician | 11/23/1957 | See Source »

...Force wanted-even though there had never before been a pine tree in all Antarctica. To add insult to this interservice triumph, the airmen posted a sign showing Smokey the Bear pointing at the snow and a 25th tree. Beneath him was the legend-USE THAT ASHTRAY. KEEP ANTARCTICA GREEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Keep Antarctica Green! | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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