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Word: tobacco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cuts a strikingly distinctive figure. Generally tall and strapping, he sports a thick beard and, over his uncut hair, a turban wrapped of 15 ft. of elegantly coiled and pleated cloth. He takes as one of his names "Singh" (lion). He does not smoke or chew tobacco, and he eats the meat only of an animal that has been slain with one decisive stroke. In accordance with his religion, he at all times wears the five Ks: kes (long hair); kach (short trousers); kara (a steel bracelet on his right wrist); kangha (a comb); and kirpan (a curved dagger). Holding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lions of Punjab | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...scandalized by, among other things, "the frightful manner of feeding with their knives, till the whole blade seemed to enter the mouth, and the still more frightful manner of cleaning the teeth afterwards with a pocket knife." Charles Dickens, in his American Notes, deplored the national pastime of chewing tobacco, spitting toward spittoons, and often missing-"odious practices . . . most offensive and sickening . . . an exaggeration of nastiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minding Our Manners Again | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...Love Boat is ain't," says one elderly farmer, spitting tobacco juice at a nearby fence. "Jim and Jesse's at it again. Hot damn...

Author: By Ben Sherwood, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Good vs. Evil | 11/3/1984 | See Source »

...every stop, the 63-year-old senator kisses babies, while spinning yarns about the "good ol'days" and his "never-ending battle against communism." Hunt, 47, seems limitless in his energy on the trail. From dawn 'til dusk, the gregarious governor works the factory lines and tobacco warehouses, shaking hands, giving speeches, and "listening to people...

Author: By Ben Sherwood, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Good vs. Evil | 11/3/1984 | See Source »

...concentrated doses, the substance killed insects within hours or a few days, the report said, and it distorted behavior, depressed food consumption and inhibited reproduction in tobacco hornworms, milkweed bugs, butterfly larvae, and mosquito larvae...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Caffeine Kills Insects, Scientist Says | 10/9/1984 | See Source »

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