Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their way to another dinner party at the U.S. embassy, kept Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich and the other dinner guests dawdling over their cocktails for a full hour. Wagner was on time for his visit with Queen Mother Elizabeth, however, and reported that the Queen "told me I could smoke, and reminded me that I smoked four cigarettes, one after the other, at the banquet we had for her" (in New York...
...eardrum-rupturing explosion, then another, sent blinding clouds of smoke and dust billowing into the air. Jagged pieces of steel ripped into scores of bodies. Cries of pain and terror rang out. A young woman stared in silent dismay at her Weeding leg stump. As survivors scattered in panic, a few more navy planes roared in low over the plaza. Two more bombs burst. From upper windows of the nearby Navy Ministry, machine guns sprayed the Pink House...
Town & Country. Doctors who doubt or deny a cause-and-effect relation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer have always seized on the fact that death rates from this disease are higher in the cities than down on the farm. Therefore, they argue, the cause must be smog or exhaust fumes, or simply the sinful exhalations of mass man. They may be half right, but no more, according to Dr. Hammond's figures: the smaller a man's home town, the less likely he is to smoke cigarettes heavily. This accounts for part of the urban-rural difference...
...Smoking certainly cuts down the blood flow in the capillaries of the extremities-the familiar effect of cooling the fingers. This same phenomenon can be deadly in victims of thromboangiitis obliterans (or Buerger's disease, from which the late King George VI suffered). Their limb-tip blood flow is already reduced so that they are subject to gangrene, and it is in this connection that the strength of the smoking habit is most clearly seen. Writes Cornell University's Professor Irving S. Wright: "We have seen patients . . . continue to smoke even though they suffered agonizing pain from gangrene...
After the yellow lights went off and the thunder of the exhausts rolled again it was all anticlimax. But the race churned on. Cal Niday, a daring, one-legged driver, smacked into the northwest retaining wall and spun across the track in an explosion of greasy smoke and flame. (This week he was still fighting for his life in an Indianapolis hospital.) Steadily, Indianapolis' Bob Sweikert, 29, a home-town hero who had never before even finished the 500, climbed toward the lead in his John Zink Special. At 100 miles he was third; by the halfway mark...