Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems an almost lost legend for which people nowadays mourn, as they do for many things that graced a more leisurely and miraculous time. But baseball is also a reality, a game played by ungrammatical men who, like most people, have grown up without necessarily growing wise. They chew tobacco, indulge in alcoholic beverages and do not always fend off the groupies with the fervor expected of moral exemplars...
...summer. Although 6,000 Chinese have been executed, high-level party leaders continue to escape prosecution, let alone imprisonment. "Is everybody really equal under the law?" asked the People's Daily. Earlier this year, the paper published the shocking story of Duan Yuanlai, former director of the Changde City Tobacco Plant. In 1969 he was charged with murder. A witness's false evidence won his acquittal. In 1978 he was charged with rape, but no action was taken when he adamantly denied the charge. In 1981 he was placed under investigation for corruption, but friendly officials refused to pursue...
...quick solution to the budget deficit is to double the tax on tobacco and liquor. Americans will never give up smoking and drinking...
...main thing he liked to do, and he loved to sing and dance. Michael's got the gift all right. It's in the record sales and it's in his voice. When he was only about five years old he sang songs like Tobacco Road and Cloud Nine by the Temptations, some of the other songs from Motown. We had a record player and we had our records. We had to learn those types of songs to be able to go out on Saturday night and sing to people...
...like "You're living in a dream world, baby,"; the college counselor, who visits Angel's roach-ridden tenement in an I Magnan's dress to save the bright, ambitious student; and, of course, the strectfelk--including the protective transvestite, the pistol-toting imitator of Kit Carson, and the tobacco-chewing; gun-wielding landlord...