Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Setting forth last month, armed with a hoard of cigars to chain-smoke, rotund Minister Erhard announced that he was going East with an open mind...
Other Rockefeller and IBEC Venezuelan ventures: a thriving milk business, a hotel, a string of shopping centers, a mushrooming chain of supermarkets that have, by competition, forced Venezuelan food prices down to reasonable levels...
Percy Lawrence, a South London plumber, was a 50-a-day chain smoker. He had worked up to this forced-draft rate in the Royal Navy during World War II, and never tapered off. As Lawrence lost weight and complained of always being tired, Dr. Paul Frederick Lister advised him to cut down. Still he went right on smoking. Last August Dr. Lister did a bronchoscopy, found cancer of the lung originating in a bronchus (one of the main branches of the windpipe). In little more than two months the cancer killed Lawrence, 51, husband and father...
...Observatory. Old Cronin kept his hands off the local moonshine trade, and Cambridge presented him with its first liquor license when the dry years ended. The old man was a fiery red-head whose work in Ireland had netted him the title of "Rectifier of Liquors." He ran a chain of pubs in Cork and Queenstown, and "rectified" scotch and Irish whiskey to its correct proof after it was collected--much like milk from the farms--from the county's pot stills...
...Defiant Ones. A short length of chain ties a couple of escaped convicts (Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier) together with a well-forged lesson about the real bonds of brotherhood...