Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under a cover of gray ash, and Usu continued to steam and rumble ominously. Italy's Mount Etna has erupted for the third time in a month, sending a stream of lava three kilometers (two miles) down the mountainside and shooting a pillar of flame and smoke 450 meters (1,500 ft.) into the air. Both provided evidence that, regardless of progress in other areas, man is still powerless to control the fires beneath his feet...
...verdict must await further studies, most researchers now believe that aside from rare bad trips by novice smokers, marijuana is hazardous only for chronic heavy users-people who get stoned nearly every day. They risk becoming psychologically dependent on pot and damaging their lungs with the tar in marijuana smoke. But light or occasional use of marijuana-once or twice a week -usually produces only a pleasant high, no more dangerous than mild intoxication from alcohol. Of course, pot like alcohol affects users' judgment and reflexes, so it can lead to accidents if people drive or operate machinery while...
...Chicago's O'Hare, the world's busiest airport, averages some 2,000 landings and takeoffs a day; there were more than 4,800 daily at Oshkosh. Since many of the planes were not even equipped with radios, the controllers were forced to rely on red smoke signals. Even those flyers with radios were not much better off: a pilot once asked in what order he should land and was told by an exasperated controller, "There are 127 airplanes to follow. Find the last one and follow him." Another controller simply despaired and suggested that everyone clear...
...Left was just starting to harvest its biggest crops of the newly radicalized. Draft cards and American flags went up in smoke. The Spring Mobilization to End the War in Viet Nam brought together hundreds of thousands of protesters in San Francisco and New York. Dow Chemical's recruiters were driven off campus. Ahead for the movement lay Woodstock, Chicago, Kent State, the Days of Rage...
Some of the resulting contrasts with Beatles songs work better than others. Strawberry Fields Forever, a drug song, is backed by masses of huge, drowsy faces, ballooning up over the stage as they smoke pot, looking as passive as numbed denizens of an opium parlor. Revolution, in which the Beatles dissociate themselves from violence, shows hooded Klansmen burning a cross, and a monk in self-immolation to protest the Viet Nam War, serenely praying as delicate traceries of flame sweep over him. The words of a famous Lennon love song about the need to make up after a spat...