Word: cigarete
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...wealthy Warsaw businessman, Mine was brought up in comparative luxury. Old Madame Mine used to brag about her eccentric boy. "My Hilary," she would tell her friends, "started showing Communist leanings at a very early date. When he was 17, he would never light a cigaret before offering one to our maidservant...
...lost his right arm in the South Pacific campaign. Stiles, with Lieut. Pollack's cooperation, eventually developed an artificial hand which he claimed would tweeze, grip, poke, carry and press. A Stiles-equipped amputee might thus be able to bowl, play golf, pick up a pin, hold a cigaret, button his own sleeve...
Loving care went into selecting and photographing such effective minor details as Manhattan streets on a rainy night, Miss Bennett's slatternly Greenwich Village apartment with its cigaret butts in a sink full of dirty dishes, Robinson's gloomy Brooklyn apartment where the sound of the neighbors' radio seeps up through the floor like a cold draft. But the chill look of reality in the sets only emphasizes the two-dimensional unreality of the characters who walk through them...
...would be a great night for the spilled highball, the cigaret burn, and the lamentations of teetering women who had just lost a high heel from one slipper. Shrill words would be spoken before dawn. At least one famous actor, writer or politician would get punched in the nose, and automobiles would collide with an abandon almost forgotten during the stodgy years of gas rationing. The morning-after consumption of aspirin, raw egg and Worcestershire sauce would rise again in proof of man's infinite capacity for hope...
...expecting to find even one Christian among [Okinawa's 15-man Advisory Council], I yet asked if any of them were Christian. No official of Military Government knew, but one remembered that a member by the name of Toyama refused a cigaret once and someone had explained that he did so because he was Christian...