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Word: waft (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Helping Hand. To the Europe-bound traveler, however, the United States will look as luxurious as any ship in the world. Among her features: 2 2 public rooms, two theaters, and kitchens equipped with electronic radar stoves. Her two giant smokestacks, largest ever built, have fishtail fins to waft the ship's exhaust away from the sports and sun decks below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Back in the Major League | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...Along the broad King's Walk, behind whose fashionable modern apartment buildings lurk some of its best-advertised houses of prostitution, Chinese merchants set up hobbyhorse displays and giant paintings of the King. Incense candles were made ready to be lighted and to waft pleasant smells (very important in Siam) when the King arrived. A youngster got tired of waiting, climbed up into a tree and went to sleep. Passers-by tickled the soles of his feet. He went on sleeping. Police wormed their way through the crowd notifying property owners that a police order issued the day before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Garden of Smiles | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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