Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successor, General Creighton W. Abrams Jr., 53, a hard-cussing, cigar-chomping specialist in tank warfare, takes over the superb American military machine Westmoreland did so much to fashion in Viet Nam and is bringing in new generals to give it new directions. "Abe is by nature a slugger and a killer," judges one of his military peers. "Westy tends to be a boxer." And after a year spent spurring South Viet Nam's army to action, Abrams is at last able to supply them with the M-16 rifles that Westmoreland requested in 1965 and other modern weaponry...
...Cuban-made cigar...
...Leavitt and Pierce. Hunters had to ask for a Royal Jamaica Churchill cigar...
...looks neither young nor beautiful. Deep lines mark the brow. Stumping in the sun has turned his nose pink; lack of sleep has dulled and reddened his eyes. The grey wires in his tawny hair grow more visible. How goes the race for the nomination? From behind his cigar: "It's silly to talk about that. It's like trying to gauge the outcome after the first five seconds of a minute-long contest...
...where the actor imperceptibly fuses artifice and reality. He dominates the stage with feral tenacity, and there is an uncannily mnemonic effect in his feat of physical resemblance. The pudgy hands thrust the walking stick forward like an advance scout probing enemy territory; the pouty lips nurse the huge cigar; the gruff, lisping voice rasps out even cadences like waves beating on the shore. Many of the words he is given to say, however, seem in closer accord with der Führer Prinzip than with bluff British pragmatism. Never for a moment is the playgoer unaware that this...