Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting scheduled for that afternoon. The party caucus met behind closed doors. Adenauer first wanted President Theodor Heuss's term extended, but was told the idea was unfeasible. For 4½ hours the bickering went on, made more short-tempered by Adenauer's request that no one smoke in his presence. Through the doors could be heard the angry outcries of Erhard's rival, Interior Minister Gerhard Schroder, who had wanted him out of the way. In the end a 40-man committee was chosen to find a new presidential candidate, who would inevitably be of less...
...night, over the nation's great steel centers from Sparrow's Point to Fontana, the belching smoke and cherry glow of the furnaces made dramatic testimony to steel's comeback. The order books were filled for months ahead, and the mills were pouring at near-record rates. The figure last week: 86% of the industry's newly expanded capacity, 2,439,000 actual tons and a volume within hollering distance of the 2,525,000-ton alltime peak set in December 1956. As customers hurried to build up depleted inventories and hedge against the threat...
...North Pole without radio contact anywhere. As soon as the Sun set on the evening of the tenth, aurorae were seen around the world, even in some latitudes where they had not appeared within memory. The display was so bright that it was seen in New York City, whose smoke and lights make it one of the world's worst observation points. Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin, Chairman of the Astronomy Department said next morning that it was the brightest aurora that she could recall...
...dresses conservatively, usually in blue serge suits. His modest four-bedroom house in Bronxville, N.Y. is distinguished only by its six telephones, which cost him nothing. He and his wife, a University of Minnesota girl, have two daughters. An elder of the Dutch Reformed Church, Kappel does not smoke, drinks rarely-but can play shirtsleeve poker (a quarter a raise) with the best...
This photographic and popularized version of the Scriptures, approved by the Vatican, is outselling in Italy the Holy Bible itself. It appears in La Bibbia (The Bible), a Milanese fumetto magazine, named for the fumetti, or "little puffs of smoke," in which, as in U.S. cartoon balloons, the dialogue drifts above the heads of the characters...