Word: butt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drinks and smoke cigarettes, all the while commenting obliquely on thunderstorms and ghosts, and on such standbys as truth and illusion. Every so often a long-winded narrator, sort of a supernatural Walt Disney, interrupts to fill those details too difficult to dramatize. Sound and light effects also butt in from time to time, but they prove merely idle threats of impending excitement. We get only ambiguity for suspense, a tape recorder for horror...
...Even many of his own Christian Democrats tried to keep him from running for a second five-year term in 1964. Benign but somewhat bungling, he won a reputation as West Germany's unexcelled master of the malapropism, has been long regarded by his countrymen as the butt of much good-humored ridicule. Students wore "I like Lübke" buttons, and satirists produced an LP parody of his stumbling speeches...
...million citizens, too, there is a growing boredom, if not dissatisfaction, with the regime. With only 1,860,000 members, Poland's Communist Party is now proportionately one of the smallest ruling Communist parties in the world. Naturally, the party's malaise tends to become the butt of the very humor that the regime fears and seeks to ban. As a joke making the rounds in Warsaw last week had it, a popularity poll of top Polish leaders is now impossible. Reason: no one remembers who they are any more. The government was not laughing at that...
Tobaccomen took a different view. The Tobacco Institute countered that there remains "no scientific evidence" that human health is affected by tar or nicotine. As for the tests, the institute complained that the FTC did not cover all 150 varieties of cigarettes available. Its big beef over butt length in the tests drew some surprising support from within the FTC itself...
That feud centered on the FTC's decision to smoke nonfilters down to a finger-burning 23 mm. (about ½ of an inch); the filters were puffed to a bare ⅛ of an inch before the filter wrapping. The industry protested that the average smoker tosses the butt away at 30 mm. (about 1½ in.). The FTC itself was divided 3 to 2 on whether to make the butt 23 mm. or 30 mm., which would generally lower the levels but make for more uniform testing because most filter and non-filter types could then be smoke-tested...