Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guilt and moral fear, to which unhappy man can make some realistic readjustment. Mowrer's prescription: a changed attitude toward social authority and its "internal representative," anxiety. If man's attitude is not changed, he will continue to seek relief from anxiety in such futile devices as tobacco, alcohol, gambling, "sexual monomania," gluttony...
...gadget that gave him most delight was a radio transmitter no bigger than a pocket tobacco can. Commerce Secretary Harriman sent it over to the White House, along with the information that its electronic components were offshoots of top-secret experimentation during World War II. It was christened the "walkie-no-back-talkie." With his transmitter, Harry Truman, under the duly registered call name "Independence," could broadcast to anyone within a range of 200 feet. His message could be received by any standard receiver tuned to 6575 kilocycles...
...government fighters knew they had a tough opponent in Vafiades, who uses the nom de guerre of "General Markos." Born 41 years ago at Kastononv, in Asia Minor, he worked as a bricklayer, painter, carpenter, grocer boy, street vendor, real-estate clerk, army private, tobacco worker, journalist. In 1924 he joined the Communists in Macedonia and edited a Communist workers' publication. His police file shows that he has been jailed at least eight times since 1929; that he is 5 ft. 7 in. tall, lean and muscular; that he has blue eyes, wavy chestnut hair and a mustache that...
Until it came time to move, the Atlanta Constitution never realized how much junk it had around the house. There was a steamboat wheel in a tobacco-stained corner, a stuffed mallard duck suspended uncertainly over the city desk, a sign that said: DON'T STARE AT THE EDITOR-YOU MAY BE CRAZY YOURSELF SOME...
...money was spent for. The composer himself had explained his work: "If it is broad and sweeping, as the judges say it is, it comes from viewing the high plateaus of the Wasatch Range while tending sheep. . . . One passage sort of expresses the old-timers who spit tobacco into brass spittoons. . . ." But Trilogy had little picture painting about it: it was a well-knit if not wonderful symphony, with occasional ear-splitting eruptions of brass. Commented Detroit Critic Harvey Taylor: "Those 25 Gs could have fallen into much, much less able hands...