Word: aromas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest of the meeting was no more productive, though the atmosphere was calm and professional. There was no shouting, no pounding on the table. Aziz politely asked if he could light a cigar, and Baker, a former smoker, just as politely said he would relish the aroma. But neither side had anything new to say. Neither of the men budged a jot from their mutually exclusive positions. Baker said Iraq must quit Kuwait without conditions or face war. Aziz insisted the gulf conflict must be solved in conjunction with all Middle East problems...
...restraint. That is not necessarily so in the southern republics. Speaking privately in Tbilisi two weeks ago, one of Georgia's most popular nationalist leaders denounced as "traitors and collaborationists" any of his countrymen who participate in Soviet-approved parliamentary elections this fall. Such epithets give off a distinct aroma of gunpowder...
From a huge caldron on the kitchen stove in a London flat wafts the comforting aroma of classic chicken soup, enough to feed a hungry orchestra. From a small upright piano in the living room wafts a bittersweet trickle of melody, enough to feed a hungry spirit. Michael Tilson Thomas, the 45-year-old principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, is cooking on both burners...