Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...request of Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg, fans at the Grand Prix Masters tennis finals in Madison Square Garden were asked not to smoke. After a moment of stunned silence, the Garden erupted in applause. Last week New Jersey announced a ban on smoking in most public buildings, including gambling casinos being built in Atlantic City...
...kept to a minimum by strict adherence to federal clean-air, safety and waste-disposal standards, but concern persists-with reason. Reacting to it, Washington is virtually certain to require all coal-burning plants, even those that burn low-sulfur Western coal, to install "scrubbers" that cleanse coal smoke. That is one reason why the cost of converting to coal will be so high...
...grotesques. The white paper takes on the look of Manhattan's 42nd Street in summer, bombed out by midday glare. Whores, bums, flint-faced Irish cops, frazzled black pimps, rats, crocodiles up from some imagined sewer, sirens emitting Technicolor laser blasts of sound, bulbous cars belching their exhaust smoke, an S and M homunculus encased in glittering leather with the motto VIVAN LAS CADENAS (long live chains) worked in studs on its back?this, in Steinberg's ironic eye, is the American dream street (our equivalent of the Di Chirico piazza, repository of all unspoken fantasy) brought up to date...
...Harvard lacrosse, team won a battle Saturday, but the war rests in the balance. The Crimson rolled over Brown, 19-9, at Providence in a contest marked by tough hitting and outbreaks of violence, but when the smoke cleared Harvard's already swollen casualty list had grown larger, heading into Wednesday's confrontation with Cornell, the best team...
Weak arms tucking a three-month-old child Sixteen and hunched half over the bed and half over the love magazine spread on the low table She chews then moves belly first. shifting her curlers Blowing the smoke from her lungs as the morning shudders through the caked slit by the door...