Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acre Zantzinger farm-estate in southern Maryland. The mansion's colonnaded porch faces the somnolent Wicomico River, which flows past a placid pond and a white summerhouse. Also on the estate is an austere farmhouse from which William Devereux Zantzinger, 24, runs one of the most prosperous tobacco operations in Charles County...
...team will obtain statistics from death certificates and medical records of deceased alumni. Hopefully, some evaluation of the relative importance of body build and other high-risk factors, such as tobacco, cholesterol count, and high blood pressure, will be found...
...animal cunning for finding food and avoiding punishment. He knows when to press forward, when to hang back, whom to be near, whom to avoid. In a complex series of maneuvers, any one of which could land him in the cell, he wangles an extra bowl of soup, some tobacco, and-his triumph-a slice of sausage, which he exultantly swallows in bed: "the brief moment for which a prisoner lives." In a gruesome way, the novel has a happy ending, for Shukhov goes to sleep quite pleased with his day's adventures...
...twice-married Muriel Marston and twice-married Richard Joshua Reynolds, it appeared that true love had come at last. She was a graduate of the New York Times society desk; he was heir to the Reynolds Tobacco Co. fortune, trying to make do on $31,672 a week (after taxes). They met at the 1950 Knickerbocker charity ball in Manhattan (she had just divorced Husband No. 2; he was still married to Wife No. 2), were wed in 1952. She fondly called him "Buck Rabbit." He endearingly called her "Doe Rabbit...
...tobacco plant that viruses were first shown to be capable of causing disease of any kind. Then came foot-and-mouth disease. Only after that was a disease of man-yellow fever-attributed to a virus that nobody had yet seen. Now, though words such as virus, gene, mutation, and even infection are taking on new meanings, medical history may be repeating itself as the cancer studies advance from plants to animals...