Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spree River and the canals near the university and the palaces of the Kaisers, along whose banks Berliners had once promenaded, now bore a sluggish parade of corpses. Towers of fire surged into the pall of smoke and dust that overhung the dying city. Here & there Berliners risked a dash from their cellars to the bomb craters filled with brackish water. Berlin's water system had gone; thirst was worse than a possible bullet...
After five hours of cigar smoke over half a dozen other names, the big league moguls got together on a compromise...
...fire from various ships. The "last bored in toward the wounded craft. The pilot was diving in low, at about a 15-degree angle. Terrific ack-ack poured into his plane and soon it was burning. But the Jap never wavered. He smacked into the middle of the smoke and a huge billow of orange-red flame reached...
...lacks the gaudy touch. "I guess I have never been young enough," he confesses, "to enjoy night clubs. I don't understand what goes on after 1 a.m.-but I doubt if anything very profound is said." A family man (he has been married twice), he does not smoke, seldom drinks, spends as much time as possible on his Doylestown, Pa. farm, where he grows wheat and alfalfa and raises Aberdeen-Angus cattle. His one eccentricity is that he writes standing up. But even that is based on logic: he paces so much when working that it saves time...
...meals. Heavy foods . . . fatty meals and greasy foods do not agree with you. . . . The doctor will probably send you to hospital for observation. Very important: ... At the hospital, take a portion of dried blood powder every evening. The blood test in your stools will be positive. ¶ "Heart disease. Smoke 20 to 30 cigarets a day. But if you normally smoke as much, then you might double that number. . . . Take four [digitalis] tablets daily for one or two weeks. . . . Report to the doctor with the following complaints: You do not feel well and are short of breath after exertions. . . . Occasionally...