Word: puff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paraguay's population is 60% to 70% illegitimate. The women "roll big black cigars on their thighs, and puff them stolidly," but a European woman may be stoned if she wears slacks. President General Don Higinio Morinigo, a young man whose "black hair starts an inch above his brows," has "pronounced totalitarian sympathies," but has taken "fairly strong action against Fifth Columnism...
Instead of using the Tech dinghies, the skippers took out the new dinghies of the Boston Community Sailing Pavillion in the good but puffy westerly breeze that turned the races into puff-hunting contests. At the end of each race the crews changed boats and set out again over one of the two courses laid out by the committee...
Life at the Summer School was carried on as usual this year in a powder-puff atmosphere, but even the novelty of a co-ed Harvard failed to dispel the gloomy war clouds which hung over the Yard throughout the session...
David McLean, a tenant of the Duke's, saw the Messerschmitt crash and puff into flame, saw also the white bloom of the parachute drifting down through the dusk Armed with a pitchfork, he found Hess lying on the ground with a broken ankle covered by his chute. In perfect English he said to McLean: "Will you take me to Dungavel to see the Duke of Hamilton?" Instead, McLean took him to his cottage, called the Home Guard. The local Home Guard officer arrived, sternly asked in pidgin-English: "You Nazi enemy?" Hess asked again to see the Duke...
Safeish in the Western Hemisphere on lumama's Independence day, dandified, puff-eyed Carol wirelessed back to son King Mihal I in Rumania "thoughts and love," assured the press later in his $100-a-day Bermuda hotel suite: "I am very glad to be on this side of the Atlantic; that I can tell you." Consort Magda Lupescu, whose given name the curious had discovered was Elena, whose body was taller and thinner than rumor whose hair was blonder than red and had never had a permanent, dazzled the populace with a chiffon blouse, outsize earrings. an anklet, white...