Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bullets. On his dead body was found an Arab talisman bearing the words: "Kill, thou shalt be safe." In 1942 the Macedonian who attempted to murder Franz von Papen, then Nazi Ambassador to Turkey, was given a contraption (allegedly by Soviet agents) which, he was told, would produce a smoke screen to cover his escape. When the assassin touched off the "smoke" bomb, it blew him to pieces...
...believe as he did.* His Christian always turned the other cheek: "How quietly, without the swellings of revenge and wrath, should we bear the daily injuries, reproaches, persecutings, etc., from the hands of men who pass away and wither (it may be before night) like grass, or as the smoke on the chimney...
...northeastern U.S. is also warming up. New York has gained about three degrees, with longer but not notably hotter summers. In large cities the rise of temperature has been somewhat helped by the smoke and heat released by man's activities, but part of it is natural...
Producer Lantz, whose stable of Universal International cartoon characters includes Woody Woodpecker, Buzz Buzzard and Wally Walrus, keeps his feathered and furry folk as innocent and clean-living as a troop of Cub Scouts. Unlike Hollywood's human stars, the animals may not 1) drink hard liquor, 2) smoke, 3) be ghosts, 4) do bumps & grinds, 5) cavort in diaphanous costumes like the kind Betty Grable wears. Chamber pots, privies, cow milking-relics of earlier movie days-are gone forever. Although cartoon villains may belabor all and sundry, no blood may ever flow...
Third, every suspect, whether proven innocent or guilty, would undoubtedly suffer from the very allegations that could be made against him under this bill. The current fallacy "Where there is smoke there is fire" has ruined many an able man's career. For example, Philip K. Jessup was never accused (much less proved) by the Senate of being subversive. But he was rejected for the post of UN delegate because "the concerted . . . attacks made on him" led the Senate to believe that "there is a considerable segment of our people who lack confidence...