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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young woman reaches with bony fingers, draws a foreign cigarette from her case, and lights a match. She stretches her long legs across the floor, resting her weight on the tiny pelvis outlined by her jeans. The smoke dances slowly around her soft, beautiful face as she begins to talk about why she is so thin, about her anorexia nervosa...

Author: By Mary B. Ridge, | Title: ANOREXIA NERVOSA | 4/21/1976 | See Source »

Starter Jim Walker wasn't exactly throwing smoke either. In the first inning he surrendered a leadoff single to Dave Singleton, a fielder's choice to Paul Halas, a double to Leon Goetz and a three-run homer to Harvard offensive her Dave Knoll before retiring the side. Not an auspicious start...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Batmen Rediscover Defense As Knoll Provides Offense, 7-3 | 4/21/1976 | See Source »

...later bought the book outside of Chile, Neruda wrote,.... Then tanks entered into action, many tanks, to fight bravely against one man alone, the president of the Republic of Chile, Salvador Allende, who awaited them in his office, without more company than his great heart, enveloped in smoke and flames...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: Santiago Diary | 4/21/1976 | See Source »

Around 5 p.m. the protesters broke into an army barracks bordering the square and set it afire. Black smoke could be seen drifting over the opulent tiled roofs of the adjacent Forbidden City and into the drizzly gray sky of North China. Early in the evening Peking's mayor Wu Teh addressed the churning mob through powerful loudspeakers, ordering them to disperse. Thousands of militiamen and soldiers marched into the square to restore order. In all, more than 1,000 people were arrested, and throughout the night 1,000 militiamen stood guard with fixed bayonets at the Martyrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Protest, Purge, Promotion | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...experienced crowd knows what must come next. Even as Koloff adds a twist to the chain, even as he forces Bruno farther into the ropes, the roar begins to build, cutting through the smoke and the beer and the disbelief. The obvious fakery and slapstick theatricality of the earlier bouts has been forgotten, swallowed up in screams for vengeance and blood...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: The Great Russian Chain Match | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

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