Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grope your way in the half-dark to an empty seat at a beer-laden table. Your eyes are immediately attracted to the stage, and through the smoke of cigarettes and cigars you can see Lola, the Queen of the Blue Angel. With black-stockinged legs spread wide and arms carelessly akimbo she stands at the center of all gazes. In a low and vibrant voice she sings her way into the heart--and libido--of even so staid a person as Professor Immanuel Rath...
...easiest and fastest way to get out of the smoke and the slush is by plane. From Logan airport passenger flights leave daily for most points in the United States and abroad, and the resident on Coral Gables or El Paso will find the service more economical even than coach travel. Christmas in London, Paris, or Rome--at the peak of the season--is easily within the grasp of any solvent passport-holder...
...smoke from the burning plastic was enough to drive twenty gasping editors out into Plympton Street...
...human cost, he was dogged enough to go on paying it month after month. But what the Union was losing in blood, the Confederacy was losing in ground and hope. Sherman took Atlanta, Sheridan wheeled through the Shenandoah and sent 60 miles of that fertile valley up in smoke. By the spring of 1865 Richmond fell easily, and Lee and the remnants of his army were boxed in near Appomattox Court House...
...other words used in Brownell's speech carried an implication of conscious disloyalty to the U.S. on the part of the people who appointed White. Nevertheless, the molders of the Democratic Party's line looked at Brownell's words and laid down a heavy smoke screen. Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell cried that Brownell had accused Harry Truman of disloyalty, had "tried a former President of the United States for treason before a luncheon club...