Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordinarily mild-mannered, suburbia-chained father, who even admits that his swimming pool is "my status symbol," is able to punch so hard. Borne to fame in World War II on the shoulders of his famed G.I. cartoon characters, Willie and Joe, Mauldin seemed dashed and aimless once the smoke of war had cleared away. "My life has been backwards," he says. "Big success, retirement, and now I'm making an honest living." Starting a brand-new career three years ago at the Post-Dispatch, he has risen to the top of his profession, using as his ladder...
Scolded smartly by Nasser's United Arab Republic for exploding "a foolish smoke bomb," even Kassem started acting as if his invasion threat had been a desert mirage. "Peaceful means," he announced blandly in Baghdad, "will prevail over tanks and planes." Hopping into his bulletproof Russian Zim limousine, Kassem made a jovial, half-hour appearance at U.S. Ambassador John Jernegan's Independence Day reception, where he was escorted inside by ten U.S. marines and ten of his own Czech-armed bodyguards. Seemingly oblivious of his scathing attacks on "imperialist" Britain, Kassem deadpanned: "Our relations with Britain are stronger...
...still speaks with a distinguishable Gotham accent; his words are well-chosen, seldom wasted. Out of the smoke of his junior-size cigars come quotable quotes, which only seldom strike one as cliches...
...stopped in Angola, and for the first time Portuguese troop carriers have been able to range freely on the dirt roads of the back country. A swath through northern Angola, extending 130 miles south from the Congo frontier, now lies scorched as the Portuguese advance, burning the underbrush to smoke out hidden rebels. The rebels, badly armed, have no answer. Villages lie deserted; livestock, farms and gardens are abandoned as terrified natives flood into the lower Congo. Many know little about the rebellion...
...brothers had drifted south to organize a pool hall, bar and smoke shop in Los Angeles' Bella Union Hotel. Next year, after word of new gold strikes in Arizona, "Big Mike" Goldwater hitched up his mule team and set off as a peddler serving the miners' camps. Frontier business proved prosperous; in 1860, Mike put up a trading post at Ehrenberg, a riverside site he named for a family friend. Mike opened a bigger store in Phoenix in 1870, sold out to establish another in Prescott; at one time or another, there have been Goldwater trading posts...