Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smoke lifted quickly from the broad avenues surrounding Saigon's Gia Long palace. In the bright sunlight, the pattern of violence came clear-raw shell holes, the black tongue-traces of flamethrowers, and the fine detail of the coup that overthrew and killed President Ngo Dinh Diem...
...American Cancer Society has thought up a new kind of advertising - uncommercial. Called "Athletes Against Cancer," the campaign is a series of cigarette testimonials in reverse. "I don't smoke," grins Olympics Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias. "Smoking cuts down on wind. And an athlete needs wind as much as he needs his legs. Athletes in top condition don't smoke - they can't afford to." Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford (who did some testimonial commercials last year for Camels) says: "Cigarette smoking is dangerous for your health. I guess we all know that science has proved...
...Europe the anti-tobacco campaign is far less circumspect. The British Ministry of Health has put up more than a million posters. One says: "Why be another sheep? Before you smoke, THINK. Cigarettes cause lung cancer." Another shows a half-open coffin, with the legend: "The big Flip-Top Box for the Smoker." In Italy, all tobacco advertising was made illegal...
...terrific roar, and the line vanished from sight behind a spouting column of black dust and smoke." So wrote T. E. Lawrence, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, of his World War I dynamiting raids on the Hejaz Railway, the 782-mile "pilgrim express" whose single track linked Damascus with the Islamic holy city of Medina. Lawrence of Arabia reduced most of the line to a snarl of sprung steel and splintered ties. Nearly half a century of desert winds and systematic depredation have done the rest. Bedouins ransacked the abandoned stations, pried loose wooden ties for cooking fires. In Medina...
...people--fight with them and not for them. The vacationers register a few voters (sell a few gallons of healing oil and an insurance policy), antagonize a cracker grocery store owner or two (collegiate mischief), then take off for school and--poof--their work goes up in the smoke of myth and old habit...