Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown sat beside Kennedy during the ceremonies, made a speech of his own, shared a twin plunger with the President to set off the dynamite and send red, green and purple smoke over the valley...
...hour was late in the conference room in Brussels where the Common Market foreign ministers were considering Britain's application to join Europe's Six. Stale cigar smoke hung in the air, and papers were scattered over the tables. Picking up one of the English-language documents, France's Maurice Couve de Murville took the floor to lambaste each argument it contained. Suddenly a hand tugged at Couve's sleeve and a voice whispered in his ear: the paper he was so ruthlessly demolishing was not from the British at all-but was an English translation...
...experiment has been organized by the National Institutes of Health as part of a huge ten-year study of 50,000 pregnancies and the health and growth of the resulting children. Smoking during pregnancy is of special interest to the researchers because women who smoke seem more likely to have their babies prematurely. And prematurity, despite recent medical progress, is a hazard to health and even life: 50% of all babies who die in the first month after delivery are among the 7% born prematurely. Some doctors, though, see no direct connection between smoking and prematurity; they argue that...
...first of three, 30-mile heats around the wind-chopped lake, Miss Seattle Too, bounced, dug her nose into a wave, flipped end over end, and disintegrated into a heart-stopping cloud of spray, smoke and plywood. A Coast Guard helicopter plucked Driver Dallas Sartz from the wreckage, miraculously with nothing worse than a broken left leg. No sooner had the next heat roared away around the oblong course than another Seattle boat, Tempest, threw a connecting rod and burst into flames. The Coast Guard whirlybird dipped down to rescue Driver Chuck Hickling, but his boat was severely damaged...
...serve as a needed tonic, by raising once again the religious question in all its jagged complexity; like Bergman's knight one finds it equally hard to believe and not to want to believe, as he sees the church's agents light the faggots round the stake, andthe smoke disappearing into the vacant intersteller spaces beyond...