Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world, at least and at last got a symbol of unity: a worldwide flag. At Lake Success, the U.N. Assembly's Legal Committee took five minutes to approve a secretariat design: a white polar projection map of the earth's seas and continents on a smoke-blue background. As with the U.N. emblem adopted last year, the earth was shown girdled with olive branches. For the present, nobody would be required to pledge allegiance to the flag. But it would be handy for identifying U.N. outposts and traveling commissions. Once the flag has been formally adopted...
Back in the dark, drums were softly brushed. Nellie struck a big fat chord. Underneath the piano, her gilded sandal began to slap the floor. And with a pixyish glance up into the smoke-filled spotlight, Nellie was on her way. From behind a shiny gold tooth came a big voice with dust in it-singing Hurry On Down, a husky tune Nellie herself wrote. First, her piano accompanied her with knotty background chords while she sang; on a second chorus, she accompanied the piano (which she plays in a style reminiscent of the musician she most admires, Duke Ellington...
...Editions, started for Stockholm to set up a Swedish-language edition. En route, his flying boat crashed on the take-off from Botwood, Newfoundland, and broke in half. The front half sank immediately. Acheson was saved only because he had stepped to the rear of the plane for a smoke just before the crash. This half stayed afloat long enough for him to be rescued. He took up his interrupted trip a week or so later...
...municipal police fought a pitched battle with the Virginia boys and the state troopers. Routed at the end, the firefighters lost their clothing and trucks to a rioting band of fraternity men after responding to a false signal. Hook and ladder in nearby Crozet, more intrepid than the Charlottesville smoke eaters, can still be summoned in an emergency...
...Post, showed the Admiral as a confirmed drinking man. He liked an occasional beer or Martini but his staple was Scotch and water. Admiral Halsey was quoted as saying: "There are exceptions, of course, but as a general rule, I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink...