Word: puff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Digest held its peace while the makers of Old Gold cigarets jammed the air with commercials ballyhooing how "impartial scientific tests conducted by The Reader's Digest showed Old Golds contain less nicotine than any other well-known brand." People who remembered how microscopically small was the puff given Old Golds by the Digest and knew how strongly Editor DeWitt Wallace feels about exaggerated ads (his magazine accepts no ads at all) wondered how long it would be before he cracked back...
...spits venom six feet with tobacco-chewer's accuracy. Two of the men have been hit in the eye by ringhals (bathing the eyes with milk is a sure cure); all have been bitten at one time or another. They take lightly the threatening antics of the puff adder, but have plenty of respect for the swift black mamba, most dreaded of Af rican snakes, whose bite can kill in five minutes...
...South African Institute, which processes the dried venom received from snake catchers, produces antivenin, has sent off thousands of doses all over the world. (Puff-adder venom is also used as a coagulant in hemophilia.) A quick injection of serum has saved the life of many a soldier bitten by ugly horned vipers in the West African desert, bush-masters in Central America, kraits and king cobras on the Burma front and mambas in South Africa...
...about eight yards with a width of two yards. The contour interval is 20 feet, allowing accurate elevations on the model. Colonel Ware has used a ply-wood base which he has covered with special cloth. Lightly sprinkled over the cloth is sand and artificial grass which makes a puff or hole when an shell lands...
...goats to the rocky hillside, dug into shallow holes, anxiously watched the German positions on the opposite ridge. In the peaceful valley between, where an ancient Roman column stood against the green olive groves of Arab farms, a shell from a U.S. 105-mm. howitzer exploded, sending a white puff rolling up through Faïd Pass...