Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Officially, city hall was closed in mourning for Chicago's late mayor, Richard Daley. Yet even before "the Boss" was buried, aldermen darted from one smoke-filled room to another, trying to work out a deal that would placate the city's clamorous ethnic groups. Proceedings were briefly interrupted by a memorial service, then quickly resumed. Daley would have appreciated the rough-and-tumble- and the fact that the Windy City's politicians were having such trouble slicing up the political pie left by the master chef...
...cinema. I make up stupid country songs and laugh at the women's circle of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Clendenin (South); but O God: there are times when I want to go home so bad, just sit on the porch with a glass of bourbon and watch smoke curl out of my father's pipe and the cars across the river. Then I go back to my room and close the door and listen to John Prine...
Yesterday, the school's main reading room was filled with cigarette smoke, and its tables were littered with soft-drink cans and thermoses. Some of the first-year students studying there were truly nervous. Others were playing it cool...
...incident began at about 12:40 a.m. as residents of G-31 Wigglesworth detected smoke coming from an empty bedroom, reportedly the result of an electrical malfunction. The residents of the room pulled the fire alarm, bringing the city fire department to end the would-be holocaust...
Those of us who drink and smoke couldn't be any worse off than that wretched soul surrounded by Kleenex boxes and paper toweling...