Word: smoked
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...Dark, smoke-filled rooms and tough guys slouching around a table, playing for keeps--that's our image of poker from old movies. But in the past few years, as poker mania has taken hold of the nation--fueled by televised tournaments, celebrity players and a proliferation of online poker sites--the game's macho image has undergone a makeover. At card tables both real and virtual across the country, women who didn't know a flush from a full house a year ago are pushing in chips and slapping down cards faster than you can say Texas Hold...
...after repeated attempts by a police officer to calm him down. Singh declined to comment for this article and Katona said he had done nothing wrong. “This guy clearly took out his personal aggression on me,” Katona said. Katona alleges he was outside smoking a cigarette when police officers moved through the crowd, asking students to disperse. He said that the police officer who arrested him grew irritated after Katona said, “Officer, we are moving.” “He stepped up to me really aggressively, and said...
...free clinic. Because nobody wants whatever disease is making you think that everyone should have to witness your oral coitus. Please, even I had to have a cigarette when you two were done, and I do not know which end of the cigarette you’re supposed to smoke...
...justafter noon at Cafe 103, one of the trendier spots in a trendy neighborhood, and young Berliners are indulging in three of their favorite vices: coffee, cigarettes and politics. A generation ago, smoke-filled establishments like these were hotbeds of debate about environmental catastrophes and the risk of nuclear war. But the patrons' obsessions have grown slightly more mundane. "The tax system here is driving us all to hell," says Max Wirtz, 37, the owner of an event-management agency. "Everything is too regulated." His friend Matthias, 37, nods in agreement and says what attracted him to the conservative...
...first form of competition HSA has seen in ages as we expand our services into DormStep, a delivery service for laundry and groceries. I won’t elaborate on the nastiness of HSA and its lawyers, although I have letters to prove it, but behind the smoke and mirrors of crazy allegations like stolen business plans, breaches of contract, and “negligent fan purchasing” (that’s an allegation I think will be the funniest one ever levied against me) is an organization that fears competition. Talk to the founder of College Boxes...