Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nominating positions for Freshman Smoke Committee candidates may be submitted today to Peter Stearns '57, chairman of the election committee, in Wold...
Recesses were social occasions: Mossadegh greeted newsmen as "my friends" and mugged for the photographers. One photographer asked him to pose smoking a cigarette. "I've never smoked before," he said, but he took the cigarette and blew the smoke through his nostrils. "Only animals reject gifts," he explained, grinning...
...three and three-quarter years the grisly processions went on. Bishops, preachers and laymen-some 300 of them, all convicted of heresy-were marched to the stake, and the smoke of their burnings hung like a pall over England. It did not stop until death came one day in 1558 to the woman in whose name the executions were carried out: Mary Tudor, Queen of England...
Battles are often lost because divisions lose contact with each other in the smoke of combat. Though less publicized, a lack of communication at home is often as disastrous as any on the battlefield. In the cold war of world armaments, a leading scientist made a statement a few weeks ago that went almost unnoticed by the press, but is fully as disquieting as the announcement of the Russian hydrogen bomb. Said the director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory: "there exists a complete lack of communication between the scientific community and out top military and political leaders...
Since all the characters, including Hester, are extremely reticent about explaining themselves, there rises around The Marmot Drive an atmosphere of smoky symbolism. Though the book is smoothly written, its characters never quite develop enough force to blow the smoke away...