Word: cigaret
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...conference room, Washington's women reporters filled the first two rows. (One newshen wore two huge orchids.) Clark Gable sat down uneasily before the audience of nearly 100, lit a cigaret, took a nervous sip of water. He was acutely aware that, whatever he had done, every hero who had held such press conferences before him had done much more...
Captain Gable grinned sheepishly, lit another cigaret, rubbed a nervous forefinger over his famed mustache, tried hard to answer the questions with a dignity they did not deserve. Finally someone asked for "a 50-word tribute to the fellows you fought with...
...There was no moon. Not even a cigaret glowed and silence spread over our ship. Below decks a few played apathetically at cards, and at the end a big major, his glasses clouded with steam and his inflated face slick with sweat, owed $8 to a sharp-eyed little captain. He asked: 'Do you want it now, or will you take it off the corpse?' One by one the men drifted off to the narrow, airless bunks assigned them. The wardroom was empty...
Posing as cigaret-company representatives, they said they wanted to send each man a carton as a gift. A wife, a mother, and a girl friend quickly supplied the information that their men had just sailed on a transport. One woman cheerily volunteered its destination...
...tobacco shortage imminent? From the rich, leaf-growing lands of the south, a thick smoke screen, pungent with reports of short crop and runaway prices, swirled up around the tobacco industry last week. Over the radio, cigaret programs vaguely hinted at a shrinking supply. Newspaper ads pleaded for patience if favorite brands were temporarily exhausted. To ration-wise citizens, all this spelled shortage. But what was behind the smoke...