Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police declined to give the number arrested, but the opposition lawyers said more than 300 persons were picked up. Police also fired smoke grenades, hit people in cafes, and warned newsmen away from the prison area. An ABC-TV crew was handcuffed and held for four hours...
Part of the understatement lies in the humanity of Powers's characters. His pastors are mild gamblers, they smoke cigars and drink whiskey now and then, they are concerned with worldly things like income, furniture and football games. Their need for defined relationships is presented as a human one rather than an institutional one, and because of this presentation the stories gain dramatic force. But the offices of the Church are no longer sacrosanct. As a result, the traditional hierarchy has been permanently weakened. Even God is brough down to a mundane level. When the Bishop of Ostergothenburg tries...
...fire in a psycho-physiology lab on the eleventh floor of William James Hall yesterday resulted in $2000 to $3000 of smoke damage to the lab and "utterly destroyed one slide projector," according to David C. Wilcox, assistant superintendent of the Faculty...
...Although the fire was contained in the projector, the heavy black smoke belching from the burning plastic caused a film to settle over the whole room," Wilcox said...
...train approaches New Haven its passengers become increasingly less sober and more boisterous. There is scattered singing and a few people are dancing. The vices are what one would expect for the Harvard-Yale game; alumni drink $12-a-bottle scotch at the front of the train, students smoke $35-an-ounce marijuana at the back. When the train arrives, cabs and buses wait to whisk denizens of the game to Yale's campus, and to the Yale Bowl where the game will be played. In Yale Bowl parking lots old friends gather to sip champagne and pick at delicacies...