Word: smoldering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...myself, with the permission of my doctor, I smoke about 30 Pall Malls a day, more than half of which smolder away in the ashtray as I work at my typewriter . , . Never felt better in the past 20 years...
...coal scuttle near the stove, the lignite coal began to stir. Soon lumps of coal popped spontaneously from the bucket and flew about the room. They hit the walls and Pupil Jack Steiner's head. The bucket capsized. The window shades began to smolder. A dictionary, touched by no human hand, started moving. The book case suddenly burst into flame...
...burnt and leather-beaten by the sun to a permanent brown, cut and scarred by razor-sharp lines that drop perpendicularly about his mouth. About the eyes sky-strain has woven a lacework of crow's-feet. Within this net work, two coal-black eyes brood and smolder. Said an artist assigned to do a portrait of the General : "That man has the face of a hawk...
Crossville is quiet-the U.S. Army sees to that. But old hates still smolder. Nazis smile little. First groups of POWs were surly and uncooperative. More recent captives are more amenable. All show the effects of Axis reverses...
...attack anyone from the newborn to the octogenarian. About a third of the victims of epidemic encephalitis die; another third are crippled by all sorts of nervous disorders, the remainder seem to recover. But they cannot tell what is in store for them, for the disease continues to smolder for many years, often destroying brain tissue, producing startling changes in personality...