Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haldeman as ruling such a move out of consideration. Another Haldeman claim that the grand jury apparently did not accept was that throughout this exchange Nixon "led Dean on. . . obviously trying to smoke out what was really going...
...palace guard and killing eight. Other rounds came dangerously close to the U.S. embassy. Most of the shells impacted in a densely populated refugee area. Fanned by gusting winds, flames raced through flimsy wood-and-straw huts in a fire storm so intense that a huge pall of smoke almost blotted out Phnom-Penh's bright afternoon sun. The attack took a heavy toll: at least 140 dead, 200 wounded, more than 1,000 homes destroyed and 10,000 people homeless...
Finally, opposite the Hotel Sucre, the tallest in the city, I found the restaurant where I was to meet my acquaintances. As soon as I stepped inside I was almost overcome by the cigarette smoke that filled the room. A chintzy instrumental version of "Eleanor Rigby" played in the background. I moved aside as a young couple, the boy dressed in tight dungarees and wearing sunglasses, the girl in hot pants and a blouse with puffed sleeves, left their table and walked to the door, waving to their friends. After my eyes had adjusted to the dim light...
...about 5:15 p.m. the Cambridge Fire Department responded to a report of smoke at Pangloss and arrived at the building across from Widener Library with two aerial towers, four engines and one rescue unit...
...players who filed into Chess City's smoke-filled second-floor loft on Manhattan's Upper West Side last week ranged in age from six to 50. With the persistent chutzpah of the true chess buff, each one figured he was the equal of a grand master; and each one plunked down $25 for the right to trade gambits with Boris Spassky, the former world champion. The simultaneous matches quickly turned into a boisterous chess happening. Six-year-old Robert le Donne bounced in toting his schoolbag; another player brought along a sustaining bottle of borsch; a third...