Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lawns and gardens. Out West, dry-weather weeds have sprung up in the draws of prairie pastures, adding deceptive color. All through the Midwest are fields of wheat, corn and soybeans that took root much earlier on slight rains, then simply stopped developing. They hover now between life and death, still handsome to the casual observer. A delegation of Senators and Congressmen whirled across the area in helicopters, minced around in their city shoes looking at the drought wreckage, but sometimes were not impressed. When one of them spied a wheat field he thought looked pretty good, the farmers pulled...
...white man in a black South African township, the Rev. Nico Smith faces death threats in his battle against apartheid...
...just what the doctor ordered." But Cipollone kept on smoking even after developing a malignant tumor that forced surgeons to remove part of her right lung in 1981. She continued sneaking puffs after the entire lung was taken out in 1982, and finally quit about a year before her death from cancer...
...Cipollone's name will not be lost among the cancer statistics, because as a final gesture, she turned her stubbornness against the tobacco companies that sold her the cigarettes. She and her husband Tony filed a liability claim, which she made him promise to pursue after her death, though no one had ever won such a case against a cigarette maker. Last week the five-year-old lawsuit made history when a six-member federal jury in Newark ordered the Liggett Group, maker of the Chesterfield and L&M brands, to pay Tony Cipollone $400,000 in compensatory damages...
Cipollone chose L&M, she explained before her death, partly because of the testimonials by celebrities in the company's ads. Said she: "I remember they used to be so glamorous. They always used to wear evening gowns." Defense lawyers sought to establish that Cipollone was an intelligent woman who made a decision to keep smoking despite plenty of signs that it was risky. As evidence, they introduced 115 articles from TIME, 47 articles from Reader's Digest and even lyrics from popular songs like the 1947 hit Smoke, Smoke, Smoke, which included the words "Puff, puff...