Word: puffs
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...devastating wit. An estimated 40 million Americans have tried it at some point, from Ivy League law professors to country-and-western singers. Yet in some states, possession of a few grams can get you put away for years. What does it do to one's immortal soul to puff and wink and look away while about 100,000 other Americans remain locked up for doing the exact same thing? Marijuana prohibition establishes a minimum baseline level of cultural dishonesty that we can never rise above: the President "didn't inhale," heh heh. It's O.K. to drink till...
...importance both of appearances and of self- promotion. Along the way he won some unlikely backers, among the most useful William Randolph Hearst. The old reprobate publisher was so taken with the evangelist's patriotism and call for spiritual renewal that he telegraphed his editors around the country: "Puff Graham." TIME for its part declared in 1949 that no one since Billy Sunday had wielded "the revival sickle" as successfully as this "blond, trumpet-lunged North Carolinian...
Saturday: As soon as the young Exonians are off the bus, they charge into a convenience store for a pack of cigarettes. As they puff on that first Marlboro, they feel the tobacco rush through their clean systems, leaving them light-headed and sweaty...
Yarrow sang some of his popular tunes from the 60s, including "Blowing in the Wind", "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "Day is Done...
...close as possible to the intersection of two powerful psychosocial forces. One is the Vector of Incompetence: if you can't hit a decent forehand or chip shot or jog half a mile without seeing spots, do you take yet another futile lesson or try once again to puff yourself into condition? No, you buy a new racquet, or set of irons, or a frightfully expensive pair of illusion-enriched running shoes...