Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time contriving projects to stimulate their classes. Let the children choose, they say but only if they choose from a set of "officially-(approved) creative" activities: for instance, writing a fake Peace Corps journal instead of having geography class; or making an avant-garden environment form Daddy's old cigars and cigar boxes, instead of painting a picture of the most exciting day of the summer vacation. Not that Herndon didn't put in his time dreaming up far-out schemes to hold his student's attention. He had his class pretend to be Tutankhamen's favorite embalmer, and also...
...with a strong streak of idealism. While other labor leaders graduated to a more sophisticated statesmanship, Meany stayed the same, still speaking in the gruff accents of his Bronx boyhood, still looking like the traditional portly boss with heavy lids drooping threateningly over steel-gray eyes. His ever-present cigar only served to complete the unflattering picture...
...tumultuous years in the public eye as a labor official, little is really known about Meany the man. In private, Meany is more expansive. He paints landscapes and abstracts in oils, and signs them "G.M." When in the mood, he sits down at the organ, removes his cigar, and belts out Irish ballads in an acceptable baritone...
Flash and Roar. Correspondent Greenway, who suffered a concussion in the blast, cabled: "I was standing in front of the cigar store in the lobby when, with a flash and a roar, the wall a few feet in front of me seemed to buckle and dissolve. I was flung to the floor. That was fortunate, because great chunks of bricks and concrete flew over me, crashing through the lobby and blowing men and furniture through the plate-glass windows onto the sidewalk...
...Cigar Shape. Described as a patch booster, the pump is an improved model of the device developed in 1966 by Kantrowitz and his brother Arthur, a physicist. Made of silicone rubber and Dacron, the booster is deceptively simple in construction. Six inches long and shaped like a cigar, it consists of two tubes, a balloon-like outer bladder surrounding a narrow tube, with an air hose that leads from the outer tube to a helium-powered driving unit and compressed air tank outside the body...