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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Annigoni had four one-hour sittings with Erhard for this week's cover, painting for ten minutes at a stretch, then letting Erhard rest for five. Erhard asked if he might read and smoke during the sittings, and was told please, no. But he grunted a jovial approval of the final portrait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Nov. 1, 1963 | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

...block the flanking thrust, the army men staging the games plotted military academy textbook tactics-with nuclear trimmings. The invading reds began the show by firing nuclear artillery at the blue defenders, supposedly vaporizing the town of Pon-tarlier (pop. 16,000). Smoke machines puffed up mushroom clouds to simulate utter destruction. The blues responded by dispatching a couple of Mirage VIs to drop 60-kiloton bombs on a red town of equivalent size. Meanwhile, back at the battlefield, the blues sprayed 15 tactical nuclear weapons on the reds in an area ten miles long and ten miles wide. More...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Games with Nuclear Trimmings | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

Bounce & Glitter. He looks 45, and, in the words of one of his writers, "he thinks he is 19." He diets, drinks very little, and doesn't smoke at all. Advancing age frightens him. So he seldom stops to think about it, zipping around golf courses or around the world, giving the winged chariot a run for its money. This has made him a transient in his own home. He jokes that the towels in his bathroom say HERS and WELCOME STRANGER. His wife spends most of her time working for Catholic charities. They have four children. The oldest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Fish Don't Applaud | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

Nine pieces answered the call and within minutes the small blaze in the storage bin was doused. No damage other than the loss of several paper cups was suffered. Spectators drawn by the sirens of the nine engines were sorely disappointed, however; there was no smoke and no one was hurt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire at Albiani's | 10/14/1963 | See Source »

...afternoon of the immolation, presumably to soothe the populace, government loudspeakers newly installed in trees near the traffic circle began blaring music. There were Vietnamese songs, French songs, Viennese waltzes and-either by accident or contemptuous design-that old Tin Pan Alley favorite, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Flames & Music | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

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