Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blankets and even mattresses (which convicts in the rain-soaked yard did not have) to sleep on. Guard Phillip Watkins, 33, said that convicts at first kicked him and broke his arm. But another prisoner called them off. Later he was addressed as "sir," given cigarettes, hot meals and snuff, and a prison doctor was allowed to treat his arm. What he found particularly terrifying was not the convicts' threats, but the fact that he, like most of the hostages, was blindfolded much of the time. "Every sound, even the drop of a pin, sounded like an explosion...
...April 5), finally came to an end last week in a Salerno courtroom. Eight months ago, in a search for drugs along the Amalfi coast, Italian police entered Berger's rented villa while he was entertaining dinner guests and found marijuana (nine-tenths of one gram) in a snuff box, less than enough for one joint. That was more than enough for them to arrest Berger, his wife Carol, 39, and seven guests...
...Crowell-Collier that ballooned sales from $29 million to $220 million in a decade, made the financial arrangements for the transition of the Sunday supplement from the defunct New York Herald Tribune into New York magazine. Well known as an art patron, his own collection ranged from ancient Chinese snuff bottles to avant-garde moderns; one of his latest projects was the construction of a 1,680-ft. stone maze ("a symbol in a world that doesn't know where it's going") on his Arkville, N.Y., estate. Married and divorced at an early age, Erpf waited until...
...Quad will have to be architecturally brought up to snuff . . . . It's just not fair to send Harvard men up there." - Jerome Kagan, professor of Development Psychology, talking about the condition of Radcliffe dorms during a discussion of coed housing...
...levels. Each act thus has an interesting microcosmic quality, since it is played out on a small, elevated stage. As an act ends the light breaks off suddenly, creating an effect of structured progression when action is renewed on a different platform. Lighting and sound are all up to snuff...