Word: cigarete
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Konrad Henlein, Gauleiter of the Sudetenland, surrendered but committed suicide immediately afterward with a razor blade which he had hidden in his cigaret...
...grey, gusty afternoon of the next day, while Montgomery was in staff conference, word reached him of Friedeberg's return. He let the Germans wait-ten minutes, 20 minutes. Then, still deliberate, he walked to his van and sent for Friedeberg. The German commander came, puffing a cigaret to its finger-burning end. A few moments later he emerged, his shoulders drooping. With the others he walked quickly to a brown tent with two of its sides rolled up. They sat stiffly at a plain trestle table covered with a grey blanket. On it was an inkwell with...
...most embarrassing commuter dropped down on the Barcelona airport in a Junkers bomber piloted by two Luftwaffe officers in mufti. From the plane onto neutral Spanish soil stepped French ex-Premier Pierre Laval in black felt hat and his invariable white tie. He was nervously puffing a cigaret. Behind him came his wife and two Vichy Ministers, Abel Bonnard (Education) and Maurice Gabolde (Justice). Laval's heavy baggage included expensive jewelry, a swatch of French banknotes, bundles of political documents...
...only injuries: a bruised thigh, a lacerated ear, a ruptured blood vessel in his stomach. What had he done when he finally realized that he could not bail out? What could he do? He had unsnapped his parachute, sat down in his gunner's seat, lighted a cigaret-and waited...
...early days of last week Torgau was almost deserted. Marshal Konev's artillery had battered it from across the Elbe. Only a few Germans, too numb to care what happened, searched rubbish piles for scraps of food and hunted cigaret butts among the cobblestones. The rest had joined a panicky throng swarming westward toward the U.S. lines...