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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Organ. A crusty, demanding journalist who works in a cloud of cigar smoke, Thompson, 66, stipulated that the magazine was not to become a house organ of the Smithsonian; he has maintained a wary distance from the Institution's staffers. Thompson was instructed that "we should be interested in the kinds of things the Smithsonian is interested in." Says he: "I added to that, 'the kinds of things the Smithsonian should be interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Making Culture Pay | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...claimed to have "recovered" the drugs. When Ogilvie learned that Cain had plotted the phony raid to make himself look good, he fired him. During the FBI investigation brought on by Cain's dismissal, it was discovered that, while on the sheriffs staff, he had helped the Mafia smoke out a suspected stoolie in its midst by having a lie detector test administered privately to five bank robbers-for the benefit of the Mob. One robber flunked the test; he was later shotgunned to death, presumably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Double-Dealer's Death | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...country's history. Military and police officers have only about one-tenth of the seats, compared with two-thirds in the old Assembly. Now civil servants, academics, journalists and farmers sit side by side. The Assembly even includes a samlor driver, who intends to park his three-wheel, smoke-belching minitaxi at the National Assembly building next to the shiny Mercedes-Benzes driven by some of his wealthier colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: The First Steps to Reform | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...Hall. Overblown poppies bloom in Oriental splendor in the organist's iridescent paisley jacket. At the keyboard, he rocks vigorously in gigue time, his rhinestone-decorated black suede shoes dancing over the pedals. Cascading waves of sound shake Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Then, with a puff of smoke, the organist disappears. Overhead, a glowing portrait of a rotund face with crimped curls and dimpled chin flashes on a screen. The overflow audience explodes in cheers for Virgil Fox and Johann Sebastian Bach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heavy Organ | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

Flight Engineer Kenneth Pfrang was knocked to the galley floor by the first grenade. "I got hit by the concussion," he said later, "and I thought, 'Why aren't I dead?' Then I realized it was some sort of incendiary device and smoke was pouring out of the canister." Within seconds, there were more flashes as two phosphorus grenades went off inside the forward section. Two other grenades were thrown into the rear; suddenly the entire plane was filled with roiling black smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: Death in Rome Aboard Flight 110 | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

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