Word: snuff
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...realization that clockwork is a power source that can be used for more than just telling time. Such triumphs of ingenuity as Venice's famed Clock Tower, where the hours are struck by a pair of huge mechanical Moors, could be, and were, imitated in watches and snuff boxes made for the dandies of the day. Casanova thought himself half naked without several such showpieces about...
...feared most was a post-Korean public clamor to release reservists now in the services, and to taper off on the draft. They were dead against such ideas. Another question that worried them (but not nearly so much): How long can you keep a big armed force up to snuff if nothing happens...
Visitors this summer even smoked Mozart cigarettes, munched Mozart pumpernickel. There were performances in the Festspielhaus and the open-air Rocky Riding School, not quite up to snuff, of Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute. But last week the first postwar performance of the late Richard Strauss's last opera edged Mozart momentarily out of the spotlight...
...right. He's losing a lot of weight. She should be happy about that. Give my regards to all the neighbors there. Please, please don't worry. And if you don't get my letters, understand that things aren't quite up to snuff yet. Okay? Au revoir! You know that I love you very much...
...were scrambling up the river bank. Hess's six machine guns laced a pattern of lead along the bank. "I looked back," he said, "and there were 30 soldiers stretched out flatter than pancakes." He grinned, then checked himself. "It's a terrible thing," he said, "to snuff out lives that...