Word: aroma
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Cool autumn winds off the River Plate stirred fitfully through Buenos Aires this week, fluttering bright political posters on the walls, wafting a rich aroma from the stand-up coffee bars, riffling the leaves of the acacia trees. Steamers hooted in the harbor, cattle bawled in the stockyards, streetcars clanged and creaked. In the restaurants, solid citizens, their appetites renewed by the crisp air, tucked napkins into collars and turned with sober and fastidious attention to platter-size steaks and tall bottles of red wine. At night, in the tango palaces, unsmiling couples danced as black-suited singers mourned...
...some circles in Scranton, Pa., talk of sugar in the gas tank or the stench of a stink bomb is likely to evoke gales of laughter. It also evoked interest on the part of Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets investigating committee, which followed its nose to the aroma and found-rotten eggs in Scranton's building-trades and teamsters unions. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Ungentle...
...sneered he, "This season turns my stomach with its vulgarity, and the added aroma of the nitrogenous stimulant they are plying the Yard grass with is an added guarantee." Vag stirred the gin, ice, and tonic and returned to the refrigerator...
Kennedy sniffed a favorite aroma from her kitchen: chocolate sauce...
...aura of corruption arising from the hearing room of the U.S. Senate committee investigating labor racketeering last week began to show profound effects within and upon U.S. organized labor. Since the aroma emanated mostly-so far-from Frank Brewster, head of the Western Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (see box), it was the Teamsters who felt the first and greatest impact...