Word: smokes
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Hard Work & Play. Dark storm clouds were gathering over Kenya's lovely land of smoke-blue mountains, deep forests and lush green pastures. For the white landowners, some of them from England's titled families, carving farms out of virgin bush had been hard but rewarding work, producing some modest fortunes. They lived well, and when the sun went down, they played hard. Upcountry, there was cricket, polo, and pink gins on the terrace for the retired military and naval officers, whose modest pensions stretched farther in Kenya than they did in the changing social order back home...
Further, "the attention of modern man familiar with the discoveries of nuclear physics must be struck by the Biblical description of Sodom and Gomorrah." The Soviet co-authors "transcribed" the Biblical passage into modern language and decided that the columns of smoke, the fire and brimstone that destroyed the cities resulted from the blast "caused by the cosmonauts, who, before takeoff, arranged to blow up dumps of extra nuclear fuel after first warning the surrounding inhabitants" to flee. Those who looked back (e.g., Lot's wife) "were blinded and perished." A little nervously, the Literary Gazette prefaced this saucer...
...Smoke & Feel. Canadian Eskimo art went unnoticed until 1948, when Jim Houston, 38, a great-great-great-grand-nephew of Texan Sam Houston, went north to paint. Houston was fascinated by the statuettes the Eskimos had made for centuries for their own pleasure and, once made, had tossed negligently aside. Houston took samples south, where collectors snapped them up. In 1951 Houston settled in Cape Dorset as the Canadian government's civil administrator and chief patron of the local artists. Once Houston had built carving into a business that grosses $150,000 each year, he looked for another...
...calls him Gossie for short). A pair of round-eyed Chihuahuas, led by a tweedy woman, minced past on the urine-spattered floor, each bearing on its back a tiny knapsack loaded with a pack of cigarettes, matches and sunglasses. But nothing distracted Handler Alford. Squinting through the smoke of her Winston, she turned the Peke over on his back and began to brush the long hair on his. belly with strokes that soon had him wheezing in relaxed delight...
When Sammy Davis swings into She'd Live in a Tent, Joey worriedly pretends to detect an Arab influence, announces: "Jewish people don't live in tents. We don't even smoke Camels." When Senator Jack Kennedy caught the show last week, Joey told him: "If you get in, Frank has to be Ambassador to Italy and Sammy to Israel. I don't want too much for myself-just don't let me get drafted again." Turning to the medical profession, he muses: "My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn...