Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saigon, the posters and painted slogans of the defunct Thieu regime had disappeared, swept away by a massive cleanup campaign. Other remnants of capitalism, like advertising posters and bright neon signs, were expected to go next. The cloud of exhaust smoke that customarily hovered over Saigon was gone, a result of the city's gasoline shortage. There were far more bicycles on the street than before, even though their price had quadrupled. Black pajamas, the customary clothing of the Viet Cong guerrillas, doubled in price...
...that summer there were Good Guys and Bad Guys. The good ones were those who, Breslin says approvingly, knew how to manipulate what he calls "the mirrors and blue smoke." O'Neill, and politicians like him, knew how to make men see in the mirrors and blue smoke of politics exactly what he wanted them to see. When politicians like Nixon began to lose control of these instruments of power, they were able to see in the mirror only what they wanted to see. They could no longer make others see it, too, and the mantle of power fell from...
...like Nezval in Czechoslovakia or Kundera himself in his youth) left us beautiful verse because through the magic of poetry, all statements become the truth, provided they are backed by the power of real experience. And the poet certainly experiences deeply, so deeply their emotions smoulder and blaze. The smoke of their firely feelings spread like a rainbow over the sky, a beautiful rainbow spanning prison walls...
...People on Mission Hill think that black smoke is going to come out of that smokestack, but there just won't be any," Fischman said. "They think it will be an ugly building, an eyesore, but it will be designed very well...
...Timetable. After the October 1973 Saturday Night Massacre, in which Archibald Cox and William Ruckelshaus were fired and Elliot Richardson resigned, O'Neill and Albert quietly channeled the impeachment inquiry to Peter Rodino's Judiciary Committee, even though the House had not voted to do so. More smoke. Without any authority, O'Neill pushed Rodino into speeding the selection of an impeachment counsel, then into setting an impeachment timetable. John Doar was selected as counsel. O'Neill brandished pro-impeachment polls and the timetable at Congressmen. More mirrors...