Word: smoldering
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...Churchill was not the man he had been ten years before. His shoulders were rounder; his jowls hung looser beside his bulldog jaws. But his step was still springy, and under his beetling brows his eyes could still smolder and twinkle with their old fire. During the last years of his eclipse, old friends and enemies alike had noticed in Churchill's speech a tendency to slur and meander, but in the heat of this latest campaign, with victory once more within his grasp, the old leader gave no sign of such deterioration...
Deep discontent and resentment smolder throughout Yugoslavia, directed against four typical expressions of Communism : 1) the five-year plan, which compels men & women to work hard for an almost unbearable standard of living; 2) socialization of the land; 3) persecution of the church; 4) suppression of human freedoms by an all-powerful secret police...
...myself, with the permission of my doctor, I smoke about 30 Pall Malls a day, more than half of which smolder away in the ashtray as I work at my typewriter . , . Never felt better in the past 20 years...
...coal scuttle near the stove, the lignite coal began to stir. Soon lumps of coal popped spontaneously from the bucket and flew about the room. They hit the walls and Pupil Jack Steiner's head. The bucket capsized. The window shades began to smolder. A dictionary, touched by no human hand, started moving. The book case suddenly burst into flame...
...burnt and leather-beaten by the sun to a permanent brown, cut and scarred by razor-sharp lines that drop perpendicularly about his mouth. About the eyes sky-strain has woven a lacework of crow's-feet. Within this net work, two coal-black eyes brood and smolder. Said an artist assigned to do a portrait of the General : "That man has the face of a hawk...