Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Square Deal. In Boulder, Colo., the coordinator of scholarships at the University of Colorado admitted that it is almost impossible to find students qualified for the Herrick Loan Fund, which can go only to recipients who do not drink, smoke or swear...
Darkness at Noon has faded as a piece of realism because Koestler's portrait of the Neantherthal second-generation Communist has been grossly exaggerated and laughed out of existence. Clumping about his metallic office in his black boots, blowing cigar smoke in the face of his victims, cheaply adjusting theory to exigency and blindly following his vision of the party line-- he is the subject of a thousand Western caricatures. With Sputniks today whizzing about the head of Apollo, it's difficult to accept the proposition that the Soviet Union is administered by men who believe the charm...
...married at 19 and their four daughters. While recording such jukebox hits as Lone Letters in the Sand and Friendly Persuasion, he attended Columbia University (majoring in speech) and last June graduated magna cum laude. Though a Tennessee-raised descendant of rugged Daniel Boone, he does not drink, smoke or cuss. On occasion he gives guest sermons to Church of Christ congregations across the country...
...health scare actually lit up sales by causing smokers fo switch to filters. As the Agriculture Department says, "Some persons smoke filter-tip cigarettes at a higher rate than they smoked non-filter tips." Last year filters' share of the domestic market increased from 39.9% to 45.9% as consumption rose by 35.8 billion smokes...
...voice is pure club-car American, rumbling through bourbon and cigar smoke, shaking with hoarse laughter. It sounds like a man imitating what he once feared he might become: a fat-ribbed salesman for his papa's turbine plant. Rumbles James Gilmore Backus: "I left Cleveland to get away from His and Her towels, people who call cocktail parties 'pours' and the guy who always breaks it up by wearing a lampshade on his head...