Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will feature a student petition for extended hours to entertain ladies in the Houses. Once again, the sound of fists hitting table and of statements like "Let's keep this a man's college" and "By God, they're even bringing girls into Chapel now!" will echo through the smoke-filled air. The parietal rules fight will be on in full force...
...Despite their poverty, many peasant peoples smoke as many cigarettes as they can get, and often down to the last tarry fraction of an inch, without developing heart disease...
According to the rules of the game, the boy makes the decisions. A girl never says "Don't," because she knows anyone from Harvard will considerately quit and apologize on the spot if she does. She says "Oh, please!" Another smoke screen is a series...
...Fatherland." Peronista propaganda used to intone over and over again. But when the powder smoke cleared last week, there was Perón, holed up in a grubby foreign gunboat, and there was the Fatherland, cheering the man who overthrew him. Rebel hotspurs talked of seizing the fallen strongman and bringing him to trial. But the deep-rooted Latin American tradition of political asylum prevailed, and Juan Perón. gone with the winter, got a safe-conduct for a boat trip into Paraguayan exile...
...contamination. But scientists are not sure just how the air is contaminated. While greyed-out Los Angeles was doing battle, a Minneapolis meeting of smog fighters from all over the U.S. suggested that smog irritation may not be caused by the obviously suspect fumes from exhaust pipes and smoke stacks. The theory: combustion in power plants and all types of engines throws hundreds of tons of nitrogen oxides into the air, along with hydrocarbon compounds. The oxides absorb energy from sunlight, which enables them to turn hydrocarbon compounds into what chemists call "free radicals," i.e., fragments of molecules free...