Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ugly red brick buildings, begrimed by industrial smoke, sat on a treeless, limestone hogback. Most of the barracks windows were broken. There were no lawns or plantings around the camp. Worse than the looks of the place were the ugly reports that came from there...
Winston I looked forward to a holiday in the U.S. His physician had urged "a month or more in a warm climate and . . . complete rest." He would soak up sunlight, brandy and cigar smoke at the Miami home of Canadian Papermaker Frank W. Clarke, his Laurentian camp host after the 1943 meeting with Franklin Roosevelt...
...sooty fog lay heavy over Pittsburgh. Smoke seeped into the steel and concrete canyons of the Golden Triangle, bringing the lights on early in the long rows of office windows. Occasionally a puff of snow swirled up from the grimy sidewalk...
...Gold Room of the Roosevelt Hotel, the atmosphere matched the dismal day. The air grew thick with tobacco smoke, thick with angry words. The 175 top officers of the United Steelworkers were cooking up a strike already approved by their membership. After meeting all day they came to a decision: the strike would start...
...like herself: unfeathered, serious, competent. She was conservative by temperament, but in her commonsensical way of facing each new project with a scalpel eye, she made Barnard modern. She is a devotee of the classics, but she abolished compulsory Latin. Barnard under Dean Gildersleeve let the girls smoke and taught them sex hygiene without raising the hubbub that these topics roused in other colleges. Once, when asked what obstacles she had had to overcome in her career, she answered characteristically: "None whatever." Nobody would ever call her Mrs. Chips...