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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lose their punch the third time around. The plot, almost inevitably, concerns the one driver who wants to push the risk a little further, and how fate slaps him down. Along this weary route some good redneck ambiance has been provided, especially in a couple of roadside joints-all smoke, neon, parched customers and deadening good times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...table. "No one goes beyond this table except us," said a U.N. officer. Three Finnish soldiers wearing newly painted blue helmets and carrying Belgian FN rifles marched stiffly up and down. Overhead, an Israeli Mirage appeared and swiftly disappeared. Two Egyptian missiles fired and missed, leaving white puffs of smoke in the cloudless azure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Good Thing, This Cease-Fire | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

...himself," says the coach, who covers his own generous frame with flashy shirts and colorful wide ties. Overweight players are also required to follow a ritual called "tea day," consuming nothing but tea two days a week. Barking orders through a cloud of cigar smoke, Merritt teaches pro-style football -tough defense coupled with a grind-it-out, ball-control offense that features short passes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Black Tigers | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

...General Motors reports a new process that reduces SO2 emissions by 90%. Tested successfully for 14 months in a pilot installation at the Chevrolet plant in Parma, Ohio, GM's process starts with a trap to take dust particles out of coal smoke. Then the gases are routed into a device called a scrubber, where they bubble through a caustic-soda solution; chemical reaction between the SO2 and the soda produces two salts, sodium sulfite and sodium sulfate, that are pumped from the scrubber in waste liquids into tanks. There, lime and calcium carbonate are added. The resulting calcium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Cleaning Up Coal Smoke | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

Buttoned into an armored personnel carrier (APC), we clanked off toward the south. Passing a bombed-out Egyptian coast-guard camp, we saw Egyptian dead sprawled in shallow trenches. As we drove along the Great Bitter Lake, we could see smoke rising from Suez far to the south. Finally, we were dropped off in a forward command post, where I was given a lift in the APC of a colorful brigadier general. Let's call him "Tallo" (it is a violation of Israeli censorship to publish the names of brigade commanders). Moshe, the APC machine gunner, had cautioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYEWITNESSES: Reports from the Cease-Fire Fronts | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

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