Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veil an even grimmer killer: the estimated three tons of soot and ash that sift daily out of the sky over each square mile of Britain's larger cities. In one smog-bound week last December, 4,000 Londoners died from trying to breathe the noxious combination of smoke and fog that choked their city...
...Nauseating Smoke. Michael Servetus was a classic 16th century man who could have existed only in that day, when a learned man had to know something about everything. He was a capable physician, the first in the West to discover that the blood circulates in the lungs. He was an astrologer of some repute, the author of several handy works on divination. He was a scholar in Hebrew and Greek, and, even by his enemies' testimony, a brilliant theologian...
...Luther's "justification by faith alone." By the time Servetus was 22, the "Wanted" posters were up for him in both camps. Calvin denounced his writings as "a rhapsody composed of the impious ravings of all the ages." Added Luther's disciple, Melanchthon: "Astute and impious . . . blowing smoke perfidiously before his hearers." For the Catholics, Jerome Aleander, Luther's debating opponent at the Diet of Worms, commented: "I never saw or read anything more nauseating, though the man is very keen...
...representatives of 71,000 North Carolina tobacco growers met last week in Raleigh's Sir Walter Hotel, they filled the air with their troubles as well as tobacco smoke. The drought had hit most of them hard, postponed the harvest a full two months; growers in the state were hustling to get the big leaves into their curing barns before the first frost came. Moreover, the quality of this year's crop had suffered, and prices were down. To Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, the growers sent their suggestion for a cure: acreage allotments for 1954 should...
...high incidence of lung cancer among heavy smokers, and immediately the tobacco companies rush to the defense. Instead of saying that cigarettes relax you, comfort you and soothe the nerves, they deny that their brand will give you a disease . . . TV has made it much worse. They blow smoke in a test tube and all that sort of stuff. It looks as if they're putting tobacco in a chemical laboratory to see if it will kill you. I don't think folks paid much attention to it over the radio. But it scares hell out of them...