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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last Monday afternoon, a Chevrolet station wagon carrying five Palestinians drove slowly down the Rue Verdun in west Beirut. As it passed a parked Volkswagen, a huge plastique bomb turned the street into a violent shambles of smoke and flames. The occupants of the station wagon were mortally wounded; four passersby, including a German nun and an English student, were killed, and 18 others were injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Death of a Terrorist | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...crib alarm may aid those rescues. Tested since 1973 at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, the device consists of an electrode belt strapped on a sleeping baby, and a nearby monitoring machine that blasts a 70-decibel alarm (about as loud as a smoke detector) if the baby stops breathing for 20 seconds or if its heart slows. Of 270 apnea-prone babies enrolled in the program, three died when the device failed to rouse their parents. Since then, the alarm has been made louder, and 60% of the babies have had attacks with no fatalities; 160 have graduated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alarming Babies | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

Corrosion in smoke detectors and individuals smoking too near these detectors caused a series of fire alarms in Baker Hall at the Business School in January, a spokesman for the fire equipment division of Buildings and Grounds said yesterday...

Author: By Cecily Deegan, | Title: Fire Alarms | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...found in Bogota's dope marketplace, just behind the Bogota Hilton. One of the traders, known only as Ricardo, touts a red hashish from the Llanos area. He waves a smoldering lump of it on the tip of a needle in front of his clients. As the smoke does its magic, he smiles and exhorts the potential buyers, "Just taste the quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colombian Connection | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...Washington press conference, Califano noted that consumption of cigarettes dropped by three-tenths of 1% last year, which translates into 2 billion cigarettes. Though the percentage of Americans who smoke has been declining, 53.2 million still have the cigarette habit -about the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: More Smoke | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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