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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seldom smiled, never allowed his guests to smoke, and in 28 years as moderator of NBC's Meet the Press turned the Q. and A. into a branch of the martial arts. Even so, when Lawrence Spivak, 75, faced his final guest, President Ford, and went on to a party in his honor last week, some 250 politicians and former panelists came by to bid farewell. Among those on hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 24, 1975 | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

...Machine. The work is true grand opera. Baroque audiences loved a good show. Handel gave it to them, and in Houston so did Director Frank Corsaro. Armida, a kind of ancestor of the Queen of the Night, arrives in a cloud of darkness and swirling smoke, surrounded by a small zoo of reptiles and other phantasmagoric creatures played by dancers. The staging of the final battle between the Christians and the Saracens is a novel affair that can only be called aero-choreography: dancers and acrobats pirouette, somersault, tumble and flip high above the stage in stylized but effective combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Going for Baroque | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

...When the smoke cleared from last year's long ballot counting, Francis H. Duehay '55, had just managed to eke out a seat on the Cambridge City Council. The small margin--just a few more than 90 votes--came as a surprise to an incumbent and one-time leader in Cambridge School Committee voting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Candidate Profiles | 10/30/1975 | See Source »

...Dressed usually in leather jacket and shredded undershirt, he is a glorified gutter rat from a dying New Jersey resort town who walks with an easy swagger that is part residual stage presence, part boardwalk braggadocio. He nurtures the look of a lowlife romantic even though he does not smoke, scarcely drinks and disdains every kind of drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Backstreet Phantom of Rock | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

Shaw said she noticed the smoke shortly before noon. By noon, four fire trucks had arrived, and a systematic investigation of the building was being conducted. Nothing was damaged...

Author: By Nancy Lubin, | Title: Smoke in Widener | 10/23/1975 | See Source »

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