Word: camelizing
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...personal history of most smokers is rich with the availability and advocacy of cigarettes. Billions of dollars have been spent by the tobacco companies over the past 60 years to modify the behavior of consumers. In fact, the popular cigarette slogan, "I'd walk a mile for a Camel," was written by the first American behaviorist, John B. Watson, who had lost his professorship at Johns Hopkins and ended up as an advertising executive at J. Walter Thompson in New York...
...children of this Boston suburb have used the expanse of vacant land as their exclusive preserve, a wild place, slightly apart. It is all-purpose terrain, perfect for many kinds of serendipity, a place where kids can build a secret fort, practice daredevil bike riding over hillocks called the Camel Humps, share the painful silences of adolescent romance or even read a book alone...
...Philip Morris takeover of General Foods is part of the cigarette industry's diversification trend. Reason: U.S. cigarette sales have declined by about 4% during the past three years. In June, R.J. Reynolds, maker of Camel and Salem, bought Nabisco Brands for $4.9 billion. That development coincides with consolidation in the food industry. In addition to the Reynolds-Nabisco agreement, there were also mergers between Nestle and Carnation and Beatrice Foods and Esmark during the past 14 months...
Underwood, who is built something along the lines of an unlit, unfiltered Camel, looked down at the little fur ball and somehow made himself appear bigger. "I don't want nothing looks like that buried near Old Troop," he said...
...Antarctica for a spot of penguin watching. Looking for something really different? For $751 you can fly from Paris to Tamanrasset, an Algerian town at the edge of the Sahara. From there you travel by Land Rover on a two-week trek into the desert. You can ride a camel too, but beware of scorpions...