Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountain mothers spread their olympian "dinner-on-the-ground" in the groves of scrub oaks around the graveyard. The kids darted among the weathered tombstones and their rednecked fathers gathered to smoke and discuss politics and family ties. The Adams clan was distinguished by red ribbons, the Webbs wore yellow, and green ribbons identified the Crafts. By high noon, 600 cousins were on hand...
...question which had started the whole ruckus-"Does cigarette smoking eventually cause lung cancer?"-the statisticians had to hedge. They did not yet have enough cases to be certain. But on the basis of gleanings to date, they concluded that death from lung cancer is three to nine times as common among cigarette smokers as among nonsmokers, and five to 16 times as common among those who smoke a pack a day or more...
...make matters worse. Big Ben's powerful ventilating system began to pump explosive fumes and heavy smoke through the ship. As far down as the sixth deck, the blast jammed the airtight doors. The eight men on duty in damage control put wet rags over their faces and went about their critical work of relaying messages from the bridge to the fire fighters, as their oxygen supply dwindled. "This is my last breath," one of them gasped over his headset-and it was. With agonizing slowness, rescue parties cut through the wreckage...
After two years, Tynan quit the Standard in a huff because the paper refused to stop printing letters criticizing his own acting. (Fleet Streeters also half-jokingly said that he infuriated his boss Lord Beaverbrook at a dinner party by blowing a smoke ring across the table into the Beaver's open mouth.) On Lord Rothermere's Sketch he found the tabloid an incongruous place for his erudite, allusive prose. But his new job on the more highbrow Observer is just the kind of spot that Tynan has wanted ever since Oxford. On the Observer, says...
...ingratiating manner would have carried him far in that profession. But he was early drawn to music. After two mildly promising appearances with the Chicago Symphony, he went into nightclub work. At first he was shocked by his new surroundings and stopped playing whenever he saw a woman customer smoke or take a drink...