Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...including options) and by the diesel's traditional drawbacks-low power, hard starting, loud noise and heavy weight. But auto engineers have a major incentive, besides economy, to work at overcoming these problems. Surprising though it may seem to anyone who has trailed a smoke-belch-ing diesel truck, diesels already meet federal antipollution standards. Those standards at present apply not to the quantity of smoke but to the amount of specific pollutants in it-though if diesels start hitting the market in large numbers federal standards on smoke per se are Inevitable...
...smoke, silence, emptiness and slow decay, an imperceptible leaching that was a strong smell long before it was a calamity. The knotting of the city's innards into dead hanks, not combustion, but blockage, the slowest cruelest death...
...city is a deciever. In its depths anonymity is enjoyed. But Hood, running to the country, tells Murf that when the new family gets there they will only, "Smoke and tell lies." People cannot live without theater, Theroux's novel teaches. The fault lies not in our cities, but in ourselves...
Like the coffee or tea break in the West, the perekur is one of the favorite indulgences of Soviet workers, a time set aside for them to light up their favorite smokes. Older Russians usually prefer a cigarette called papirosa-a pungent blend of black, sun-cured tobacco with a hollow paper mouthpiece. Younger Russians tend to smoke a Western-style (though stronger than U.S. brands) filter tip. Despite all the evidence linking it with lung cancer, heart disease and respiratory ailments, smoking has been rising steadily in the U.S.S.R. Alarmed by this threat to the nation's health...
These are the first words of The Autumn of the Patriarch, and what a way to begin a novel: the theme is artfully insinuated, an atmosphere instantly evoked like a puff of stage smoke, and all conveyed in language that generates a charge of expectancy. Admirers of Colombian Novelist Gabriel Garcia Márquez have come to expect such virtuosity. His One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) is a flat-out masterpiece...