Word: cigarets
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...front of Bloody Nose ridge on Peleliu. a Marine colonel fretted in his command post-a piece of tin under a poncho which shaded him from the sun. He worried the end of a frazzled cigaret, surveyed the field before him with hard, bloodshot eyes. For many days his regiment had been fighting it out in this sector against Jap troops dug into the limestone face of the ridge...
...Take off my watch," he told Reeder Parker, "I want you to give it to a friend of mine, a marine, too." He painfully printed on a white cigaret package the name of a 7th Regiment private first class...
Then he gave Parker his plastic cigaret case, on which had been scratched some girls' names and addresses - "really good ones," he said. Then he died...
...first Kalish put creases in them. Then, in the interests of documentary accuracy, he rubbed the creases out. Kalish had two half-hour periods with President Roosevelt in the White House Oval Room. In fine fettle, the President chatted a great deal. Did Mr. Kalish want the long ivory cigaret holder? Mr. Kalish did. But, in the end, having said, "Thank you, Mr. President," Kalish went out with a clay Franklin Roosevelt without a head. The Presidential head was modeled in Manhattan at Kalish's studio...
...duty by Teresa Wright in a lying-in hospital. As it turns out, he had married Miss Wright a proper interval ago, been confronted with a socialite father-in-law and his star-gazing wife (Patricia Collinge), who disapproved of smoking. With the help of a concealed cigaret-butt and some very funny writing by Nunnally Johnson, he had contrived to burn their house down and, not hearing from his estranged bride, a minor, had concluded that the marriage was annulled...