Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every buyer is a musical amnesiac. Gamesplayers, for example, might have their own use for Parsons' manual. What do the following songs have in common: Beautiful Dreamer, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Summertime, Easter Parade, You're the Top, and Yes, We Have No Bananas'? In Parsons' code they all share the opening signature...
...compleat pitcher. By combining powerful leg thrust off the rubber with whip action in his arm, the 6-ft. 2-in., 198 lb. pitcher fires a fastball that, if anything, is fastest at the end of a game. When he doesn't want to throw smoke, he is not shy about switching to his curve or change-up, even when the count is 3 and 2. By that time batters are usually so intimidated that they simply stand motionless, watching a called third strike. Says Oriole all-star Third Baseman Brooks Robinson: "Is there fear? Sure there...
...ranting days of The Manchurian Candidate and The Oldest Confession, seems to be stirring faintly back to life. Money Is Love does have patches so swampy that even addicted admirers will cast down their eyes in shame, but the life signs are nevertheless strong: "Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson. He swallowed hard. He held it down until his eyes watered, then he blew it out slowly. He grinned at her broadly. 'Your husband was murdered in front of Bloomingdale...
...deluxe double - bed spread out in back. The ceiling was covered with colored patches of rugs. At one point the driver reach up and pulled one of the patches down to reveal a stash, then passed some joints around. I felt good in the bus; but I didn't smoke any. I was drowsy and it reminded me of home, and home seemed further away than when I started out. Even though the eucalyptus smelled so good, I would be home soon...
They were quickly dashed, however. Comfortably settled in a rose-colored easy chair, pipe smoke swirling languidly about his head, Wilson soothingly explained: "While I have been away, in fact nothing has happened. But I come back and find not only journalists and commentators but some politicians rushing about like wet hens as though some devastating crisis had hit the country." He was particularly irked by U.S. Commentator Eric Sevareid, who, after a quick tour of "the kind of cocktail party circuit in the square mile of London where all the hot gossip occurs," had told his American television audience...