Word: relighting
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...extinguishing cigarettes are not a new idea. Philip Morris developed the technology in the 1980s, but has only recently decided to begin test-marketing it on some of its less popular brands. Tobacco firms have resisted using the safer cigarettes because they believe they annoy smokers - who have to relight their butts if they take too much time between drags - and cost more to produce. The anti-tobacco lobby, of course, is cheering the news and predicting that it could open the industry to another spate of lawsuits. But, says TIME legal analyst Alain Sanders, while the measure could help...
...security, emergency medical services and traffic control. And what if the flame goes out (as it did in the hands of Robert Zemeckis, director of Forrest Gump)? Well, the torch is just a torch; the mother flame from Greece travels close behind in a well-protected lantern, ready to relight snuffed standards whenever necessary. Should you want to keep your commemorative torch, you need...
...braided cap, pausing to relight his corncob from time to time, he once more made a conspicuous target. A Nambu opened up. He didn't even duck...
...sworn enemies. In Sergant Friday-monotone, he relates in voice-over the location and date of each shooting. He personally (with hundreds of cops standing behind him) shoots his victims with a lighted cigar hanging from his mouth. The cigar goes out once, and Purvis' sidekick lieutant runs to relight it to satisfy his fetish. This is the significance of the line "Don't shoot Dillinger until you see me light my cigar...
...refused. The maestro's opinion: "Music takes precedence over politics. I don't think about these things because it is outside my competence. I have so many other things to think about." In any case the Black Sash women turned up at dawn the next morning to relight the torch on the city hall steps...