Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SMOKERS continue to puff away at record rates, as February cigarette shipments reached a new high (35.2 billion) for eighth month in a row. Cigars showed 7% increase over the same month in 1959, with shipments of 485 million...
...launching tubes aboard the Navy's two Polaris submarines, listed 2^ degrees to starboard. Deep below the ship's afterdeck, a tube holding a Polaris missile was tilted another seven degrees to guarantee that the missile would fire away from the ship. Suddenly, amid a great puff of white steam formed by compressed air, the sleek, 28-ft. missile whooshed 70 ft. into the dark sky, seemed to hang motionless for an instant, then ignited in a blinding white flash and roared 800 miles down the Caribbean range...
People are hearing the same old story, and the record is getting scratched, the needle stuck." Pattern of Hell. Many respected medical authorities flatly disagree with Bowman Gray. But then, the war against tobacco is as old as civilized man's first puff. What has changed is that the attacks that were once emotional and moral are now scientific. Ever since Columbus found the Caribbean Indians smoking "tobago" (their name for the primitive pipe in which they smoked tobacco) and smoking was introduced into Europe, the friends and foes of tobacco have been tearing at one another's T-zones...
...Gray. The man who had seen filters coming was Darr, who was impressed by their popularity in Switzerland during a vacation. But the man who decided when to roll was Gray. Reynolds' test panel had smoked 250 versions of the trial Winston over two years when Gray took a puff of a new blend numbered 736 one day in 1954. Cried he: "This is it! Let's go all out for it." The company did?and Winston took over leadership among the filters in 1955. Reynolds followed up its victory by introducing the mentholated Salem, timing it just right...
...company also got an unexpected puff from Winston's slogan?"Winstons taste good like a cigarette should"?which had been dreamed up in an advertising session with Gray. Questioning the use of "like," Critic Clifton Fadiman assailed the "quiet assassination of the conjunction 'as,' " and Editor Bruce Bliven cried: "I find that I sit in front of my television set shouting at the tiny figures on it: 'No, no, you dope. Like is a preposition...