Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which had run off the track ten minutes earlier. Before the Mail's engineer could even slam on his brakes, the locomotive was plowing through the tank cars. An explosion rent the air, and the first two cars burst into flame like struck matches. A thick column of smoke boiled into the air as the fire spread along the wooden ties setting car after car aflame. Before the flames reached his car, Foreign Minister Zafrullah Khan was hauled to safety, but others were not so lucky. Despite an official claim of only 150 dead, some survivors estimated that nearly...
...know that tobacco smoke causes cancer," he pointed out, "but we do know there is a very clear cut association between those who in halo tobacco smoke and those who get lung cancer. I think that the American public must be told the facts as we are trying to tell them today...
...frequency of lung cancer in the United States is four to 13 times as great among people who smoke cigarettes as among people who don't smoke, according to the report. Just under 14,000 people died of lung cancer in the United States in 1950, compared to 15,000 who died of chest tuberculosis...
...million people are annihilated by a combination of bombs, fire, germ warfare and national hysteria. Luckily a U.S. submarine, containing "the largest hydrogen bomb ever assembled," is lying handy in the North Sea. It enters the Baltic, submerges, and explodes itself. The whole northeast of Russia goes up in smoke-and the "last great obstacle to freedom had been removed...
...Leland W. T. Cummings '57, returning to his room, Weld 19, found smoke coming from a closet where suitcases and old clothes were kept. He tried to douse it with waste baskets of water, but the flames leaped to the ceiling and he and his roommate, Joseph T. "Terry" Leverich '57 were the occupants of room...