Word: cigarets
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Liberated Brussels made liberated Paris seem restrained. Sweaty British Tommies had to push hard to get through the shrieking, kissing, singing throngs. Said one: "This is the first time since D-day that I've been offered a cigaret instead of asked...
...back in the small space of the upside-down cockpit. His feet disappeared somewhere in the jumble of dials and rubber pedals above him. His shirt was open and his chest was bare to the waist. He was smoking a cigaret...
...like to see some new faces to draw. I've had Madame Perkins and Harry Hopkins for a long time. I could draw them standing on my head. I'd like to draw Dewey with his teeth and little black mustache, instead of Roosevelt and his cigaret. If I have to work till I'm 90; I'd like to outlast that fellow and draw some new faces...
...cricket, he seems still quite ready to enjoy a series of new and even-more-exciting crises. Sitting with a caller in his upstairs study he sometimes pushes his freewheeling chair back from his cluttered desk and sits still for a minute chewing reflectively on the tip of his cigaret holder. At such moments the deep lines in Roosevelt's face suggest that he is listening to some sound that pleases him-as though the subdued hum of the household behind the closed door, the murmur of the capital beyond the curtained windows, and further away still the vast...
...Cigaret manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers all agreed that increased consumption was running ahead of increased supply, with the shortage resulting. Contributing factors: shortage of labor in some cigaret-producing centers, a dwindling supply of shipping containers, vacations, strikes...