Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cook Rabbit. Millikin recalled a Democratic treatise on the love life of a watermelon.) Then Gene Millikin stumped to the rear of the chamber, puffed on a cigarette, and licked his lips in anticipation of a good fight. He watched Douglas for five minutes, then stumped out his smoke and moved painfully (he suffers from arthritis) down the aisle on the Democratic side; Douglas went to meet him. For the next five hours two of the Senate's ablest debaters faced each other in poste and riposte which, if not instructive, was vastly entertaining. Their subject: taxes, especially...
...bloodstained Indo-China valley with a barely pronounceable name was transformed last week from a scratch on the map into one of the most important places in the world. At Dienbienphu, a faraway fortress overcast with gun smoke, 15,000 French troops fought a battle that could decide the fate of all Southeast Asia. Shock waves from the battle swept over Asia and Europe, endangering the French Cabinet, threatening the prospects of the European Army, menacing the unity of the Western Big Three as they prepare to meet the Big Two of Communism-Russia and China-at the Geneva Conference...
Circle in the Square (capacity 200) two years ago produced Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke and made a star out of Geraldine Page. The theater is now playing Alfred Hayes's Girl on the Via Flaminia at an initial cost of $3,500 and is grossing $2,700 a week...
...very well to show that there is something in cigarette smoke that can cause lung cancer, but the proof of this (TIME, Nov. 30) still left a further question unanswered. Why do city dwellers seem to get more lung cancer than folk down on the farm with the same smoking or nonsmoking) habits? Could it be something...
Stare said the discovery could be used in further experiments to find out what if anything cigarette smoke has to do with cancer. He suggested that tars from cigarette smoke could be injected along with dmba to note if the mice developed lung cancer...