Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stagnant Empire. In addition to exotic woods, there were cacao and tobacco, the latter actually called "Trinidad" in early 17th century Europe. Nations had strict trade regulations, but they meant little in the face of raw opportunism. The Spanish had a saying: "The law is to be obeyed but not always followed...
...made it up for breakfast, poured out of the elevator and stood on the sunny sidewalk as Schelling choreographed the taxicabs, and sent his men off into battle. On the way over to the Old Senate Office Building for their meeting with Brooke, Schelling and Neustadt discussed pipe tobacco. The cabbies said, "I hope you gentlemen are going to be out of here before all these students arrive for the big demonstration tomorrow...
Eying a luscious brunette on one of his antismoking commercials for the American Cancer Society, Actor Tony Curtis smirks and says "I quit-cigarettes, that is." Tobacco, that is. Upon arrival in London last week, he was arrested and convicted on charges of possessing marijuana. The fine was only $120, but back in the U.S., touchy television stations-and all three major networks-announced that they have quit on Tony...
Taylor came out of North Carolina by way of Greenwich Village. He said Saturday night that he learned his first song-a chewing tobacco commercial-at age three. He ended up singing and playing guitar with a blues group in the Village. The group, Taylor said, competed with bands "made up of kids from the suburbs whose fathers had bought them electric guitars and Super Beatle amplifiers...
...weak male, whom she eventually destroys. Julie (to emphasize the similarity, the name is repeated from The Bride Wore Black) is an elegant mail-order bride with a Saint Laurent wardrobe who has come to the French island of Réunion to meet her future husband, a wealthy tobacco farmer named Louis. From the photographs they exchanged by letter, she is almost unrecognizable. He had expected a sweet but faintly dowdy brunette; she meets him as a startlingly glamorous blonde. They confess to each other that they lied in their letters so that they would not be married...