Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Remarkable symbolism, that," observed Alexandre Verdelis, Greek delegate to OEEC, who watched Gaillard. "He collects fragments of English 'Players,' French 'Gauloises,' American 'Chesterfields,' sweet Turkish and powdery Belgian cigarettes. He puts them all together and rolls a smoke that is undoubtedly harmonious...
Ignoring the moral he had drawn from Gaillard's harmonious smoke, Greek Delegate Verdelis cried: "We have been most unfairly treated...
...looked as though Western Europe's nations were getting around to that view too. The perfect, harmonious Western Union brand was very slow in the making. But at least there was some action and smoke...
...Detroiters witnessed what they thought was the first religious skywriting since the invention of the airplane:* a plane which inscribed an eleven-mile-long JESUS SAVES in white smoke. The stunt was the brain child of the Rev. Bert Turner, 36, an itinerant evangelist. The skywriting company reduced its usual rate to $10 a word, threw in a free cross between the two words and a couple more at the end, "if the pilot had any smoke left...
...followed his usual routine in the external affairs office. Even when the convention got underway he spent most of his time seated dutifully on the platform. Occasionally and a little self-consciously, he drifted through the ornate lobby of the Chateau Laurier-the closest Ottawa came to a smoke-filled room-chatting with friends and newsmen. He had no need for a campaign headquarters; Prime Minister King overshadowed the campaign as well as the convention...