Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dinner clothes or tails. Like most big city dwellers, 71% pay rent for their homes, and 40% own cars. The rest live in the suburbs and pursue suburban hobbies on their own time. They go to the movies and theater four times a month, opera and concerts rarely. They smoke hard (1¾ packs a day), and only two are teetotalers. Half of them have a servant, and one, the lucky fellow, has three...
...Richmond's ordeal came in siege, smoke and fire. But before fire came hunger. In the ever more crowded hospitals, "a fat rat, planked and broiled, came to be recognized as a delicacy by the male nurses and orderlies." Before the end, even the rats had disappeared from Richmond's streets...
...greater is the evidence of destruction. Houses at the outskirts are all severely damaged. Further in, all dwellings have been consumed by fire. We make our way to the street on the river bank. Twice we are forced into the river itself by the heat and smoke. All along we meet frightfully burned people. By the wayside are many dead and dying. On the Misasi Bridge we are met by a procession of soldiers who have suffered burns. Abandoned on the bridge, there stand with sunken heads a number of horses with large burns on their flanks...
...played his 35th new tune, a fox trot called G.I. Wish ("G.I. . . . wish that I were free to roam, G.I. wish that I were home"). It had the same kind of whine, the same kind of maudlin lyrics that put his Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima and Smoke on the Water among the nation's top-selling folk records last year...
...Hansenne has conscientiously tried to avoid the pitfalls-overeating and high living-which threaten the path of every visiting foreign athlete. He does not smoke, prefers milk to whiskey, tries to be in bed by 8 p.m., cannot understand why there is no horse-steak oh U.S. menus. On his one nightclub excursion, he got a satisfying eyeful of American girls, cautiously explained: "It does not harm to look, no?" A rabid jazz fan, he keeps his hotel-room radio going steadily for entertainment, sings above it his current favorite-"The Hatchayson, Topeka and the Santa...