Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly Steeves felt a sharp explosion. The cockpit filled with smoke. Working methodically by the numbers from the training manual, he jettisoned his canopy, blew himself out by the ejection rig, pulled the cord on his parachute. Down, down he swayed toward the Sierra's peaks. Up, up they came in sharpness, ruggedness, meanness. He landed hard on a 12,000-ft.-high slope, spraining his ankles as he hit one of the few rocks in sight. Coolly he measured the stillness around him, took inventory of his assets: a .32-cal. revolver, a knife and some book matches...
...Elvis was sort of born with a guitar in his hands, a Hydra-Matic shift in his hips, a fog in his throat-and he never recovered. Elvis will fight bullies only if extremely provoked because bad publicity draws standing-room-only audiences. Elvis don't drink or smoke, and he don't like girls that...
...Smoke Rings. One look at her and the young mayor was smitten with a disease compounded of love and a paralyzing bashfulness. Before this gentle girl, who could both read and write, the dashing romantic was unable to speak a word. Desperate, he raced off to the town of Reggio Calabria to ask the advice of some more experienced guappi. "Appeal to her feminine curiosity," they suggested, and told him a few tricks of the trade. After that, Pietro, in the company of two friends, took up a stand opposite Francesca's door, puffing cigarettes in an urbane manner...
...expensive business, for even though he was rich by the standards of Roghudi, Mayor Nucera, a landholder and the nephew of the local archpriest, could not afford those three cigarettes a day. And in the end it proved in vain. Francesca passed by all the smoke rings with a preoccupied eye. Pietro raced off once again to Reggio and bought himself a book on how to write love letters. Francesca left his best efforts unanswered...
Summer Relief. In Tipton, Calif., after Marie Schonhair decided to smoke out the bees buzzing around her house, firemen put out the $3,000 fire, reported later that the bees were gone...