Word: puff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Concerning your interesting article on Manuel Acuna Roxas, somebody took too big a puff for me. TIME (July 8) stated that Roxas smokes five packs of cigarets (Camels and Kools, no less...
...Huff-Puff Parable. At Leopoldville, Dr. Mabie joined an assemblage of 200-odd delegates (American, British, Scandinavian, French, Belgian, Portuguese, Swiss and native) sweltering in a cluster of 22 tar-papered U.S. Army hospital buildings. In Babel-like confusion, conferees struggled with Christian heroism to meet a program of four daily sessions, crammed with as many as 19 papers at a single session...
...poor woman without resources put a stone in the pot to feed her children, telling the kids to collect firewood and huff-puff for boiling. The kids did. The kids asked for food, and Mama said, 'Wait, wait and huff-puff more,' and the kids did. Later the kids poked the stone with a stick and found it very hard. The kids told Mama, 'You've said wait, wait and we are hungry.' So saying, they ran away, found food and never returned...
...Broadway is likely to see, and tossed in perhaps the most amazing quick-change that Broadway has ever seen. Half an hour after he had vanished as Oedipus, with blinded, bleeding eyes. Actor Olivier turned up once more to rattle gaily and delightfully as that accomplished chatterbox, Mr. Puff...
...Seven thousand packinghouse workers-breadwinners for 35,000-are on strike. Chimneys that usually belch clouds of smoke emit only a weak little puff now & then. The resounding thud of a sledge on an animal's forehead is missing. No blood runs on killing floors. The lonesome watchmen make their rounds in silence. To leeward there is no smell...