Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glumly Jack selects a Cuban cigar from his humidor. He is afraid to smoke cigars in public lest he look like a "wise guy." Pipes too have been forced into the privacy of his home since Marlboro cigarettes became one of the show's sponsors. Wandering aimlessly once more, like a man in search of work, Jack walks into the living room and picks up a newspaper. "What the hell can I say about the new women's hemlines?" he asks sadly. "I've already advised them to have their knees lowered...
...formal decision to go to the summit with the U.S.S.R.-a public U.N. Security Council session rather than a private smoke-filled room-came out of a week of tangled interchanges and conflicting pressures, which began with one of the crudest letters a President of the U.S. has ever received. Russia's Dictator Nikita Khrushchev flatly accused President Eisenhower of delaying a summit parley because Eisenhower did not want "a peaceful settlement" in the Middle East, was in fact preparing "fresh acts of aggression ... to confront the world with an ever-increasing extension of the military conflict...
...tobacco men were burned up. Huffed the Tobacco Industry Research Committee: "The position of this country's cigarette industry is unchanged. Scientific evidence simply does not support the theory that there is anything in cigarette smoke known to cause human lung cancer." Added one insider: "O'Neil-Dunne is like the kid in the gang who punks...
Lost Innocence. Recollections of Leavitt & Peirce not only are effusive ("At least one tiny island on a fluxing planet has remained the way one likes to remember it"), but like smoke, they drift far from the source. Novelist Walter D. Edmonds ('26) begins with the admission that he broke a filial promise not to smoke until he was 21 when "some Jesuitical character pointed out to me that I was already in my twenty-first year," rambles on to recall that the resulting fumes possessed a curious musk. "Some mornings I awoke to find as many as ten cats...
...goes up in smoke, here smoke appears...