Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grandma cooks a mighty belly-boggling, legendary dinner. Douglas gets sick and lies loony and limp. He gets well. He and his brother rocket around town, crazy with motion. He hides, quiet, in the dark bed of ferns beside the porch, listening to the drone of grown-up voices; cigar ends glow in the dusk. His new sneakers fade, streak, scuff, and at last lose their amazing power. Pencils and notebooks appear in the dime-store window: school lurks. The porch swing is taken down. And the summer of 1928 is over...
...pianos, and complex vocal accompaniments. Such artists have strengthened country music while enriching it with a new diversity, and have opened the way for other minorities. So what might have seemed impossible became inevitable, and finally happened: a rawboned Texan with a tall hat, a gunslinger moustache, and a cigar between his clenched teeth swaggered onto the country stage, and the crackers moved over to make room for Kinky Friedman, the first Jewish country music star...
Even a whole different set of reporters was brought in for the tournament. The regular Virginia Slims Circuit press from World Tennis and Tennis U.S.A. not to mention Bud Collins, the dean of tennis writers, stood apart from the loud, cigar-chomping sportswriters from The Boston Globe and The Herald-American...
Outside on the Florida beach, men 15 or 20 years his junior were content to lounge in complacent retirement, but the pink-cheeked, white-haired, blocky figure stumping the hotel corridors was clearly just rounding into top form at the age of 80. Trailing cigar smoke and the unmistakable evanescence of power, AFL-CIO President George Meany last week took firm command of the annual assembly of the nation's labor chieftains at the elegant resort town of Bal Harbour, Fla. When he was through, Meany had displayed his consummate mastery of the labor movement and strengthened his position...
...Grandma Moses, to wild impressionism. Meany also taught himself to play the piano by ear and now has a console organ in his home. At night, passersby can sometimes hear him beating out Dixieland jazz and old Irish ballads. After three martinis, a solid meal and a good cigar, Meany may break into song, if the company is congenial. Galway Bay is the likely choice, or Cockles and Mussels...