Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even as smoke still curled above the ruins of Managua, Nicaraguans were already beginning to contemplate recovery from the devastating pre-Christmas earthquake that flattened 80% of the city. Restoration of the country's capital-the home, until the quake, of 400,000 of Nicaragua's 2,000,000 population-now poses both problems and opportunities for the family that had dictator ially governed the country for 40 years. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss toured the ravaged city last week and sent this report...
...cunning sense of phrasing that has made him a favorite of many musicians (among those who have happily accompanied him are Count Basic, Woody Herman and Duke Ellington). On a ballad like It Was You, he has a knack of letting the song rise lazily above him like cigar smoke. On standards like Mimi and End of a Love Affair, he is in the jazzy, hold-your-hat tradition. No less an authority than Frank Sinatra once called him the best singer in the business-and now that Sinatra has retired, he may well be. "He's the singer...
...field, ten large colored boxes were wheeled out and opened. About 300 balloons floated out from each one, hardly enough to break the record. Overhead, five smoke planes spelled out a message. "Go Dolphins-AVIS MIAMI...
...seasons during which his teams have won 29 victories and suffered 85 defeats. However, he still gives the same wishful pre-season speech to his squad each fall. "You should all give up drinking, although you may have a few beers after each game. and none of you should smoke--especially any funny stuff...
There was also scrub baseball, in which the littlest kid was allowed to play "pigtail," meaning that he stood behind the catcher and retrieved all the passed balls. There were boat races on nearby Crystal Lake, where the air was afume with adult cigar smoke ("One of the great disappointments of my life has been the fact that no cigar ever tasted as good as that cigar smoke used to smell there by Crystal Lake"). Of course there was a high school play. In a performance of Peg o' My Heart, Bruce was called upon by the script...