Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...typical senatorial dispatch, my fellow delegate abnormally reticent out of the same nervousness that made me unusually talkative. We told him how the Mississippi delegates' high image of their senator, James O. Eastland (D.-Miss.) was dashed. Eastland had been talking on the phone behind a cloud of cigar smoke when the two arrived in his office. He motioned to them to sit down, saying "Be with you in a minute boys." And then, after hanging up the phone, an explanation: "Sorry for making you boys wait. That was the television people. They want...
...mile jog through the chill highlands air-at a formidable sub-six-minute-mile pace. Later in the day, after calisthenics and a rest, the slightly built (5 ft. 9 in., 135 Ibs.) miler would run to the point of exhaustion. Unlike the notoriously roistering Walker, Bayi does not smoke or drink, and, while training, he tucked himself chastely into bed by 8:30 p.m. He had even postponed marriage to his fiancee, who bore him a son last fall, until after the Olympics...
...rock were my five friends, hand-in-hand, sit-sliding...sploosh. They rode the tidal wave they made in the pearl-pool at the bottom, clambered out as if an ejector seat were pushing them, and toiled back up the path to where I was. Greetings, food, wine, smoke, sun, pine needles, my turn...
...particularly awesome beast, at least in Bartram's description: "Behold him rushing from the flags and reeds. His enormous body swells. His plaited tail, brandished high, floats upon the lake. The waters like a cataract descend from his opening jaws. Clouds of smoke issue from his dilated nostrils. The earth trembles with his thunder." Nonetheless, when Bartram's cockleshell of a boat was attacked by a giant alligator on a Florida lake, the naturalist beat at it with a club "until he withdrew sullenly and slowly into the water, looking at me and seeming neither fearful...
Smellie stipulated that the prime aim should be "utility," so that the encyclopedia has become in large measure a reference book on how to do useful things. There are, for instance, seven pages of instruction on how to build a chimney (under "Smoke"). Smellie himself undertook to write the treatises on 15 major sciences (out of the 45 listed), and his style has a charm of its own. Sample: "The Cat... Of all domestic animals, the character of the cat is the most equivocal and suspicious...