Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back to the smoke-filled room for a new split of the pie. Bilandic remained the acting mayor with the understanding that he would not run for a full term in the special election that the city council must schedule within the next six months. A new post was created, vice mayor, which the twelve Polish aldermen were permitted to fill. To appease the 13 black aldermen, Frost was given the chairmanship of the finance committee...
...Game was responsible for the release of 4,000 pigeons in flight over the crowd, an exercise that produced history's most massive precision drill: the simultaneous holding of souvenir programs over 63,036 heads. Other wonders: a 30-foot statue of a Green Bay Packer snorting smoke from three-foot-wide flared nostrils; a hot-air balloon that, too cold to climb out of the stadium, drifted into the stands and was torn apart by fans. The N.F.L. went superpatriotic in 1972, when it staged a flyover by Air Force jets, having arranged for a plane to peel...
...ancient Romans kept geese on their Capitoline hill to cackle alarm in the event of attack by night. For modern Americans, fire is nighttime's most dreaded foe?yet relatively few households are equipped with smoke detectors, the contemporary early-warning birds...
...About 7,000 people in the U.S. are killed by residential fires each year ?75% of them during the night. Up to 60% of those lives might have been spared by smoke alarms, safety experts contend. Says Richard Strother, associate administrator of the Commerce Department's National Fire Prevention and Control Administration: "We believe they're the single most effective piece of equipment ever devised to prevent fire deaths...
...Chance. The alarm sounds a deafening, 85-decibel squawk even before fire has actually broken out?smoke from a nearby overdone roast can set it off. Easy to install, the bowl-shaped sensors can be simply plugged into house current. Even better, some are powered by batteries; these generally last a year and chirp insistently when they are running down. Smoke sleuths can be used in conjunction with heat detectors (cost: $100 plus for a complete system). Heat detectors are slower to sound a smoke alarm and are used mainly in closed areas such as basements and garages, where...