Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happiness" is a very important one in American intellectual history, and he has written this book to explain its origin and significance. The result is a fascinating amalgam of constitutional law, political theory, literary analysis, and popular psychology, embracing topics as obscure as the citizen's constitutional right to smoke opium...
...manner, Rab Butler sat down. The Laborites sat in morose silence: he had left them few chinks to shoot at. Two or three Tories had brought along their silk toppers, the traditional thing to wave on jubilatory occasions, and now waved them with the fervor of shipwreck survivors signaling smoke on the horizon. Prime Minister Churchill, however, was not satisfied with the demonstration. His face working with emotion, he rose and wigwagged some papers in his hand to rouse his backbenchers to louder applause. To old Winston Churchill, who was himself Chancellor the last time taxes were pared back...
...disappear over a low ridge which lay between me and the center of the city . . . Suddenly, there was a tremendous flash, far brighter than the sun . . . The next thing I knew, I was lying on the ground. As I scrambled to my feet, I saw the great mushroom of smoke rising into the sky . . . The skin of my bare arms seemed as if it had been held before a hot fire and was tingling ... I was wearing dark-tinted spectacles at the time ... I thought this fact might be of interest to Ophthalmologist Rose and Biophysicist Buettner...
...arms, the world took its conquerors captive by converting them to new religions which ad dressed their message to all human souls." Is the World going to teach the West a new religion? Toynbee asks - and it is hard to tell whether he means it or is merely blowing smoke rings in his wine glass. "We cannot say, because we cannot foretell the future. We can only see that what has actually happened once, in another episode of history, must at least be one of the possibilities that lie ahead...
Pure Havana. In Portland, Ore., Thomas Crawford told police that two strangers had hypnotized him by blowing cigar smoke into his face, then got him to draw $1,100 from his bank account and give them the money...