Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jesuits now meeting in Rome in Extraordinary General Congregation (TIME, Sept. 16), he urged Jesuits and members of other orders to eliminate "without ado and with courage all superfluous things," including tobacco. Also to be shunned: pleasure trips and extended vacations. Plainly convinced that it is better to smoke than to burn, a spokesman for the hard-smoking Jesuits said: "Tobacco is usually a luxury, but it can be a necessity with some people...
During the years of retirement, Sibelius never moved far from his house, wrapped himself in cigar smoke and in music (he liked to listen to concerts from all over the world on a powerful short-wave set). Said he wistfully of jazz: "If I were only younger!" Of cowboy ballads: "They never get grey hair, do they?" He was said to have composed steadily, but nobody was able to discover just what the music was like. From 1932 on, when the late Serge Koussevitzky announced that he hoped to premiere Sibelius' Eighth Symphony with the Boston Symphony, audiences looked...
Five fire trucks clanged to a stop before University Hall yesterday afternoon after it had been reported that smoke was issuing from Mr. Bulfinch's building. Dean Bundy ran down its historic steps, calming down the breathless firemen, waiting photographers, and anxious students: only the insulation in the basement had caught fire, and everything was under control...
...YORK, Sept 24--A Sugar Ray Robinson-Carmen Basilio rematch in June probably will emerge from the smoke screen of conflicting reports following last night's bitter 15-round brawl at Yankee Stadium...
...Witchweed seeds are invisible when mixed with soil, and they can be carried by farmers' boots, auto tires, shipments of farm products or almost anything else that moves. Experts shudder to think what would happen if a hurricane were to pick up the seeds and scatter them like smoke. The parasite can probably thrive throughout the South, from Virginia to eastern Texas. It can live on wild grasses, including the common crabgrass, and the 20-year life of its seeds makes it a stubborn enemy...