Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crew survived, but T.D. ("Doug") Benefield, 55, the chief test pilot for Rockwell International Corp., which builds the B1, died. Benefield, a 29-year veteran of skirting the outer edge, had a cigar-chomping confidence that put him in the Right Stuff league with Chuck Yeager. The prototype, known as the B-1 A, was one of four built and one of two still flying...
...sternly enforced this year: reporters who wanted to use his remarks on the plane sought clearance, and a news photographer was barred from further travel after taking pictures without permission. One of Mondale's concerns, aides said, was to avoid being photographed smoking a cigar or sipping an occasional glass of Scotch...
...Castro to autograph a picture from an earlier session, the President's arm was so sore from holding Stevenson's hand aloft in a victory salute that he could barely write. The arm was not too sore, however, to offer Leifer a light for his Cohiba Cuban cigar in the souvenir photo above...
...erupted. Mondale and his aides cheered, shook hands and, in a strange gesture for that controlled group, slapped palms in the high-five manner of basketball players celebrating a slam dunk. Mondale a few minutes later strolled out onto the patio, lit a cigar and savored the moment alone. His younger son William, 22, joined him; they talked about, of all things, mosquitoes, which are plaguing North Oaks this summer...
...crowds chanted, "Jesse! Jesse!", Jack son chatted amiably at the airport with Castro. The Cuban gave Jackson a cigar, which the minister, who does not smoke, tried to puff from the wrong end. Castro said that he was releasing the prisoners "as a gesture to Jackson and to the American people...