Word: tobacconist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only two people, the mayor and an insurance man, who said they would vote yes. Everyone else-workers, farmers, shopkeepers and professional men-said they would either vote no or cast a blank ballot. But Frenchmen have a way of confounding opinion seekers. Pierre Renaud, Briare's pharmacist-tobacconist, perhaps expressed it best. "The French are a funny people. They always complain a lot but usually vote oui." In France, it is the mind that does the talking but the heart that does the voting...
...reissuing his novels. To ex-Communists and younger, unencumbered New Leftists, he is a veteran saint of the revolution for social justice and individual dignity. Yet, as keeper of the flame, Silone is an exceedingly human presence: Columnist Murray Kempton once described him as looking and talking like a tobacconist...
When he left the dormitory one after noon last month, University of Pennsylvania Freshman John Walker Green III said he was going to view a collection of rare pipes owned by Campus Tobacconist Stephen Zachary Weinstein. Next day, when Green had not returned to his dorm in Philadelphia, a search was begun, and Weinstein reported that the student had never shown up. Last week Green's body was found in a green steamer trunk bobbing in the Delaware River...
...been drugged, strangled and sexually assaulted. When police went back to question Weinstein, they discovered he had fled. In the next several days, as half a dozen students came forth to describe their own encounters with Weinstein, it became apparent that the chubby, jolly co-owner of Ye Olde Tobacconist shop was more than just a friendly neighborhood storekeeper...
Lights Out. Trouble was, complained the island's merchants, the strollers were window-shopping and little else. "Sales have dropped 50%," wailed the owner of two woolens shops. "This is not an island, it's a desert," snarled a tobacconist. "They're trying to make a graveyard," complained Restaurateur Otello Caporicci, "out of the historical center of Rome." The aggrieved merchants banded together, turned out the lights in their shopwindows in protest. Some restaurants even served food by candlelight. Meanwhile, outside the island, traffic piled up on the perimeter in an angry, tooting wall of vehicles, often...