Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrain interrupted at the horizon with moonscape ridges. In the distance, Israeli tank formations rolled across the windless desert, raising long trails of stagnant dust. Helicopters with dangling cargoes fluttered back and forth. High overhead, delta-winged jets streaked toward the west, and to the north, the tree-shaped smoke of shellbursts rose from a ridge...
...what is a bureaucrat? A Customs Service border guard risking his life daily in the war against drugs and contraband? A Veterans Administration nurse laboring to restore the nation's Viet Nam wounded to health? The Forest Service fire fighter breathing smoke in Oregon and California at this very hour? A cancer researcher? The FDA technician whose revelations on thalidomide saved untold numbers of unborn babies from hideous disfigurement? The clerk who dispatches a Social Security payment to a senior citizen in your own family? Which of these bureaucrats would you trim from the federal payroll...
...junta. The earliest estimate for national elections was in three to five years, and even that was a guess. By the time the polls reopen, Chileans may be too deep into dictatorship to remember the old days of democracy that ended so suddenly two weeks ago in blood and smoke...
...smoke-filled room is called "Polish air," and a disastrous economic plan is called "Polish economics." The situation is not helped by the fact that thousands of Poles and Hungarians are imported to fill menial jobs in the G.D.R. because of the labor shortage...
Ever since the Government report linking smoking with cancer and heart disease was first published in 1964, doctors and public health officials have waged a steady war against cigarettes. Now their efforts seem to be increasing. Last month Arizona became the first state to take legal action against tobacco by banning smoking in public places. Britain's Health Education Council, meanwhile, turned to shock tactics in its campaign against cigarettes. It released a poster showing a child dragging on a cigarette as he perched in his high chair. Its message: when a child breathes air filled with cigarette smoke...