Word: marlboros
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bambi doesn’t even know if the cash will come in tonight. “It’s all up in the air,” she says, lighting her first Marlboro of the night...
Wilson, who turns 60 this week, is sitting in an outdoor caf on the Yale campus. A polite, doughy-faced man, he likes the outdoors because it allows him to puff on his Marlboro Lights, but on this unusually hot spring afternoon, he looks a bit formal and out of place in coat, tie and newsboy cap. He grew up in Pittsburgh's predominantly black Hill District, dropped out of school in the ninth grade and set out to educate himself by devouring books in the library. One of the first was anthropologist Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture...
...health. But once again the media told me more than I wanted to know. Any day I fully expected the CBS Evening News to sign off as follows: "Thanks for being with us. This is Dan Rather reporting from inside the President's colon. Good night." George Zinnemann Upper Marlboro, Md. The Whiz Kid's Exit...
...years since Richard Babcock first mounted his pickup truck to rescue a colonial barn in distress, snatching a comely example of Scottish extraction, circa 1710, from the jaws of damp rot in Lenox, Mass. After eight months he had tenderly transformed her timbers into a family home in New Marlboro, 18 miles south. Thus was ignited the peculiar passion that, 75 recyclings later, still drives the master builder. "I'm an evangelist, truth to tell," he says. "Some men are called to save souls. I was called to save barns...
...natural question: What kind of risks, really, do U.S. brands face abroad? People outside the U.S., and especially in Europe, are increasingly telling pollsters that they no longer like or feel good about familiar U.S. brands, including Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Marlboro and Heinz. A poll of 8,000 consumers in eight nations taken last December by GMI Inc., based in Seattle, shows that 61% of French consumers and 58% of Germans feel negatively toward U.S. firms. Another poll by the Edelman public relations firm, based in New York City, found that the image of brands including Merck, Procter & Gamble...