Word: camel
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...draw on "all my favorite old clothes -- trench coats, pajamas, pea coats, letter sweaters. My bride will be a prom queen, maybe in a big, reversible skirt." To get himself in the mood, he runs around Greenwich Village, where he has bought a brownstone, in his father's old camel-hair topcoat...
...claiming "a very significant victory." In a pale but disturbing analogue of the Lysenko affair, scientific judgments have been alloyed, if only slightly, with politico-religious dogma, creating / an unwelcome precedent for a nation that needs to stay even -- in some cases to catch up -- with its competitors. The camel's nose is now in the tent...
...example, when a husband in the study made a joke about housework, she accuses him of denying the problems in his home. (In fact, he did deny them, but not because of the joke.) At worst, Hochschild chastises a father as a bad parent for refusing to do a "camel walk" with his baby...
...well be U.S. cigarettes because we believe in nondiscrimination." Cigarette makers also insist that they are not inspiring new smokers but offering better choices for people who already have a taste for nicotine. Says Brenda Follmer, a spokeswoman for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco International, which sells the Winston , and Camel brands: "People say we are trying to make the Asians light up. But they're already lighting...
...antismoking crusaders who want to ban cigarette advertising, the Camel ad was a handy piece of evidence. "The most appalling in decades," declared physician Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen, a Washington consumer group. The four-page Camel ad, which was aimed at vacation-bound youths, offered tips like "how to impress someone at the beach: Run into the water, grab someone and drag her back to the shore, as if you've saved her from drowning. The more she kicks and screams the better...