Word: smokings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vociferous complaints were interpreted as a slur on the hotel's cuisine. Washington Correspondent David Lee made the mistake of lighting a cigarette while he posed a question about preventive medicine. "Don't ask me about preventive medicine when people like you, who obviously know better, smoke two packs of cigarettes a day," snapped Dr. Philip Lee, Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. End of that part of the interview...
...school as the work of "rabid, mad-dog minds" and warned: "When the wolves of hate are loosed on one people, then no one is safe." Yet McGill could also write warmly of "the acrid, nostalgic smell of wood burning beneath the weekly washday pots; the pine-and-oak smoke from chimneys of farmhouses fighting with the smell of wet-plowed earth...
...farm boy who always seemed embarrassed by his worldwide acclaim, preferred to think of himself as a reporter. Once a sportswriter, he later covered Hitler's invasion of Austria, the Nürnberg war-crime trials, 18 national political conventions-and he could also be seen scrambling through smoke-choked buildings on fire stories. Indeed, as the Constitution's editor, and particularly as its publisher since 1960, McGill proved too kindly to crack the editorial whip that the slipping newspaper needed. It is a measure of the man that the paper enjoyed a reputation far exceeding its merit...
...drives against smoking have already hurt the manufacturers. Last year smoking declined for the first time since the 1964 report caused a one-year slump. Although the nation's over-15 population has increased, the estimated number of U.S. smokers has dipped since 1964 from 70 million to 60 million. The number of cigarettes consumed in the U.S. dropped in the past year from 527.8 billion to 526.5 billion. Many teenagers no longer feel obliged to smoke; it is no longer necessarily the thing to do. Responding to these ill portents, cigarette companies have accelerated their diversification drives, which...
Metallic Ring. When the blockade began, scant food reserves were swiftly consumed. Luftwaffe raids on warehouses sent tons of sugar, meat and flour up in smoke. Rations were cut again and again, finally falling to half a pound of bread per day for workers and only two slices (about 150 calories) for children. Citizens grew accustomed to eating library paste, boiled leather, and bread baked with cottonseed cake, even sawdust and cellulose. Cats and dogs swiftly disappeared. Any stray horse was likely to be set upon and butchered on the hoof by starving citizens. In the final stages...