Word: cigarete
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Kalgan, crossroad of camel caravans from Central Asia, is the Mongolian gateway through the Great Wall into North China. Occupied by the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army, Kalgan has become the Communist metropolis (130,000 population), outranking Yenan in size and wealth. It has a cigaret factory, machine shops, a power plant, an iron smelter, railway facilities. It is military headquarters for all Communist operations in Shansi, Hopeh, Chahar and Jehol Provinces and in Manchuria...
Fifth columnists had infiltrated the enemy's ranks before the British struck, assuring the arrest of some of the most notorious dealers, including the heads of the silk-stocking racket and the jewelry trust. A cigaret girl, who tucked most of her merchandise in her underwear, demanded immediate release because she had a date with...
...misfortune to be born in politics . . . but I have never been mixed up in politics." The Countess eased her light blue slacks, glanced at the bright blue sea. "I was pro-German at the beginning . . . [but] I never worked for the Germans." She puffed vigorously on an American cigaret. "I want to live the rest of my days on a small island like an ordinary woman...
Fish Story. In Hamilton, Ontario, frustrated Fisherman Murray Henry shipped his oars to have a smoke, promptly had the cigaret knocked out of his mouth by a 4½-lb. black bass which jumped into the boat...
...Thank You, Mr. Molotov." Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov was somewhat nervous when correspondents entered a room paneled in Karelian birch. He held a papirossa (cigaret) near its lighted end, and the smoke curled about him as he read an announcement...