Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time the smoke cleared from the first-half fireworks, the damage had been done. The three leading scorers already had hat tricks, Chris "Beast" Doherty registered his first entry in the '78 scorebook with two unassisted scores, and Harvard led by the outrageous margin...
Pittsburgh could win 105 ballgames. Seriously. Put this starting rotation in your pipe and smoke it: John Candelaria, Bert Blyleven, Jerry Reuss and Jim Bibby. The aroma at Three Rivers will be fragrant, despite the loss of al Oliver and Rich Gossage...
...central character, Freed, is enigmatic to a fault. McIntyre expresses nearly every emotion except pure elation by contorting his face as he exhales his cigarette smoke. To exhibit elation he does not exhale the smoke at all. Only by careful attention to this detail can one discern any emotion in the man's character...
...Feininger, an American who emigrated to Germany in 1887, managed to blend cubism with the sublime landscapes of northern romanticism. In an early work, Side Wheeler at the Landing, 1912, the style acquires the instability of a house of glass cards; every facet of the paddle steamer, trailing its smoke as it backs away from the wharf up the tilted plane of sea, seems both brittle and charged with energy...
...world has vanished; Jewish Poland went up in the smoke of the Holocaust. All that remains in the minds of most readers is some pictures, histories-and the imperishable memoirs of Isaac Bashevis Singer. In this brief, exalted account of his youth and his country's decline, the author summons memories of Warsaw when intellectuals argued the merits of Marxism, Zionism, atheism and love-above and below all, love. The preternaturally shy Isaac had his difficulties with older women and young ones. But Sabina, Stefa, Gina were as much a part of his education as the volumes he held...