Word: palled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-year drop in per capita cigarette consumption. Average consumption worked out to 4,039 cigarettes a year for each American over 18, or slightly more than half a pack a day, up from 3,993 in 1969. Winston is still the best-selling brand, followed by Pall Mall, Marlboro, Salem and Kool. Regular Camels (there is also a filtered version) are in sixth place, but are expected to decline along with nonfilter brands generally. Filters now account for almost four-fifths of the industry's sales...
Under normal circumstances, Madison Avenue would love Augustine Gizzi, a New Jersey truck driver and a true believer in advertising slogans. Trouble is, Gizzi not only believes, he goes out and acts on his beliefs. As a result, he has cast a legal pall over scores of sloganeers ranging from Avis ("We try harder") to Westinghouse ("You can be sure...
...World of Sports. The company also will provide $100,000 in prizes for a women's tennis tournament, the "Virginia Slims Women's Invitational." In the sliest move of all, American Brands is considering television promotion of ban-exempt pipe tobacco under such famous cigarette names as Pall Mall, Tareyton and Silva Thins; even the packs will be cigarette size...
Like animated scarecrows in black robes and bamboo hats, the eight monks bend in prayer around a sacred fire. The smoke is lost in the black pall gushing from a nearby paper mill. Suddenly, the heftiest of the mendicants bellows in a throaty bass: "In the name of God, know that thou hast erred by desecrating this pure land, by acting more ferociously than a hungry tiger in devouring the lives of living beings. Curse be on thee, polluting industrialist! May God crack thine head to seven pieces and banish thee once and for all to inferno...
...plan was originated by The Rev Everett Briggs of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Monongah. "They've been living under a pall of death," The Rev. Briggs said. "There was this fantasy that widows couldn't remarry because their husbands weren't buried. They couldn't reorganize their lives...