Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every four years, the nation develops a fetish for meetings. Smoke belches forth from numerous rooms, buttons sprout like the artificial green carnations of March 17, and purveyors of the Teleprompter wax fat. This year, meeting-goers spat out their melange of denunciations in greater quantity, greater volume, and into a greater number of ears than ever before...
...most trying period, Dr. Johnston reports, is the first day and night without tobacco. Since respiratory infections reduce the urge to smoke, a man might wait until he catches cold before he begins the agony of withdrawal. Or he might try a last night of overindulgence. Too much smoking can bring on a helpful sore throat...
Streaking across the Air Force proving grounds at Muroc Lake, Calif., Northrop Aircraft's new fighter seemed for a moment to explode in the air. From the big pods at the wing tips, great puffs of smoke and flame shot out. The explosions were the blasts from showers of rockets shot from the pods. They gave the "Scorpion," said the Air Force, the heaviest firepower of any U.S. fighter. Although the big, heavy Scorpion is full of radar equipment, it can climb higher than 40,000 ft. Its radar eyes can search out an enemy plane in night...
...date allusions to airplanes, submarines, germ warfare and atomic power. There are also a number of pseudo-slapstick chases-e.g., at the climax, Mephisto, menaced by an angry mob because his alchemistic gold has turned to sand, vanishes once & for all in a puff of smoke...
Every four years, the nation develops a fetish for meetings. Smoke belches forth from numerous rooms, buttons sprout like the artificial green carnations of March 17, and purveyors of the Teleprompter wax fat. This year, meeting-goers spat out their melange of denunciations in greater quantity, greater volume, and into a greater number of ears than ever before...