Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They'll get you by the smoke...
...petition from Briggs Hall, the proposal asks that male students not be allowed on the second floor of the library after six in the evening. Though the referendum concerns the entire second floor, the proposal may eventually be modified to apply only to half of it, since smoking is only allowed on this floor and most of the visiting males like to smoke...
...smoke of battle billows onstage, blanketing the assembled military might of two or three amateur swordsmen, and the first eight rows of the orchestra. In a hilariously interminable death scene, Jonathan Miller ricochets around and around the stage in the manner of a man alternately caught in a revolving door and staggering blind drunk out of a bar. Finally he expires, with a line that promises to become deathless. "Now is steel 'twixt gut and bladder interposed." His adversary asks the rhetorical question most often put to Shakespearean corpses: "Oh saucy Worcester, dost thou lie so still...
Much of the hesitation about employing a strong policy against Castro has been based on the fear of distressing repercussions in Latin America. Yet last week the Organization of American States, meeting in Washington, took little time to make up its mind. A smog of cigarette smoke clouded the wood-paneled room as delegates from 20 OAS nations heard the choice: approval or disapproval of the unilateral U.S. action on Cuba, and yes or no to a U.S. resolution calling for a united hemisphere stand to eliminate the threat of Communist offensive arms in Cuba...
...rather special segment of mankind occupies Kingsley's boozy, smoke-hazy, symbolic inferno, a red-velours-lined Manhattan key club. But essentially the members of this eclectic hell divide be tween the damned and the dim. The damned shine phosphorescently. The dim give off flickers of goodness. Among the damned: an ambisextrous movie queen (Salome Jens), a thuggish labor czar (Neville Brand). Among the dim: a songstress with maternal yearnings (Carol Lawrence), a lawyer with a festering case of Korean combat fatigue (Jack Kelly), an aging poet-turned-furniture-dealer (Walter Abel) and his wife (Carmen Mathews...