Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, Committee One discussed admission of Eire, Albania, Portugal, Trans-Jordan and the Mongolian People's Republic. The overheated committee room, with its entire contents of delegates, tables and sorely tried hopes, seemed to swim in a bluish haze of tobacco smoke. Cuba (Guillermo Belt) dozed off, woke up a quarter-hour later, rosy-cheeked and refreshed. Later, South Africa (Jan Christian Smuts) went to sleep. Declared Liberia (C. Abayomi Cassell): ". . . We will not move the big powers-each of them has its own fish...
...anyone else's score. He walked fast; a hare-&-hounds trail of cigarets marked his route; he smoked a cigaret half through, dropped it to make a shot, then lit another. If this was a sign of nervousness, his 170 rivals -many of whom had given up tobacco to steady their nerves-didn't think it was much of one. Said one competitor: with Hogan, the age of golfing man ended, the age of golfing machine began. After 72 holes, Iceman Hogan had a six-under-par score of 282, enough to win his twelfth tournament...
...things had helped the American survive its colicky infancy. When Stars and Stripes suspended in the Mediterranean, thousands of G.I.s switched to the civilian daily. And last summer tobacco heiress Doris Duke, who got a whiff of printers' ink in Italy as a part-time I.N.S. correspondent, bought a minority block of stock...
...eating of barbecued beef, drinking rum aged in coconuts and dropping contributions into Our Lady's donkey cart, had just ended. South on the Hump, in the states of Pernambuco and Baía, the spring rains brought up tender green sprouts of sugar cane and tobacco, promising record crops...
...massive mountain of a woman, with crinkly brown hair, wide eyes and billowing chins. She lumbered among tier disciples in a dirty wrapper, fumbling endlessly in the tobacco pouch from which she rolled her cigarets. Again & again she was caught red-handed in chicaneries that would have made a carnival rifter blush...