Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flight began flawlessly. On Pad 39A at Cape Kennedy, Fla., Borman, Lovell and Anders lay strapped in the 11-ft. command module that was perched atop a 363-ft. Saturn 5 rocket. With a deafening bellow, the rocket inched upward on a rising pillar of smoke and flame, then spurted off into earth orbit. During its second turn around the planet, it accelerated from 17,400 m.p.h. to 24,200 m.p.h., enough to escape earth's gravitational embrace and send Apollo 8 on the road of night that would lead to the moon. Almost 69 hours after liftoff...
After dark on the Jewish Sabbath, a team of Israeli commandos, their faces blackened, descended on Beirut international airport, located only five miles from downtown and on the edge of the city's suburbs. As an Israeli spokesman told it later, one group, equipped with smoke bombs, coolly set up a roadblock to keep Lebanese troops away. The others, ignoring parked foreign-flag aircraft, headed straight for the planes of the country's lines: Lebanese International Airways, Middle East Airlines and Trans-Mediterranean, a cargo carrier...
...several years. "I'm not able to handle a tough job like that, am I, doctor?" he joked. But in his own mind there was little question about his health. He feels fine, is a frequent golfer and squash player, drinks little and does not smoke. "I'm sorry to say," the doctor said after the examination, "that you're in A-l condition." On Dec. 3, Rogers told Nixon that he would take the post...
...smoke too much. I light a cigarette every time I want to touch someone. People do not want hands on them...
...ominous, sometimes even bumping up against the surface, rages The American Civil War, the real one. A lost Confederate general, so scared he hears himself calling out his own name, "running through the casual but chess-like deaths in the Wilderness." A headlike corpse. Upstairs and downstairs. Marijuana smoke and cannon smoke. As the Poet sings: "A punctured lung, and the band plays on." The perfect Setup...