Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cigar smoke thickened, and as the Scotch bottles emptied, so did tongues. Wershow droned on. "I have pleasure in selling Lloyd Mangrum. He has his house built and paid for. He is relaxed and eating his food." Mangrum went for $15,500. "I give you Arnold Palmer. Short backswing; no choker." Palmer's sale price: $7,000. Wershow found his biggest sales resistance when he tried to peddle last year's Open Champion Jack Fleck. "They say he's on the stick again," said the anxious auctioneer, but the bidding stalled at $5,000. "Where...
...more practical consideration is that radio astronomy is perfectly well adapted to New England weather. Clouds and smoke have only an occasional, negligible effect on radio observations. And the telescope to be dedicated today is so firmly mounted that it can be used in a gale of up to 30 miles per hour...
...like the two fellows who brought their tape recorders along, took special delight in 3713's whistle, which is marked for posterity on a commercial disk scheduled for release by Charles Clarke, an electronics specialist from Newton. Still others, such as the lady-folk, liked the aroma of the smoke, and the tingle of 3713's gorgeous soot. As for the "daisy-pickers--lamentably in the majority on Sunday--nobody gave much of a darn...
That Sunday morning, during a smoke break, he had found some of the recruits stretched out on the grass, even sleeping, in totally un-bootlike posture. Although it was Sunday, he had ordered a "field day" -a complete cleanup of the barracks with swab, scrub brush, creosote and yellow soap. At supper that evening the watchful McKeon had noticed that some of his boots took second helpings of dessert, despite his warning (as one recruit recalled) "against overeating sweets, especially when out on the rifle range. It makes shooting more difficult." With calm detachment, McKeon ordered another scrubdown...
...time . . . You'll wear gloves, of course, darling-long ones." Even with gloves, the tutor is too hot to handle. He sets the princess on fire, and by the time the blaze is finally under control, the rest of the flimsy plot has gone pleasantly up in smoke...