Word: odore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kill a man, he says, they merely sniff at his body and walk away in disgust with nary a taste. He also notes that the big cats feast on baboons but generally disdain chimpanzees, which are closer relatives of man and presumably give off their version of the manlike odor that these predators find so unattractive. "To this odor," Leakey believes, "we owe our survival. Man is not cat food...
...become a smell celebre in the L.A. area: Loyola University now fines students who burn it in dormitories; and at a West Los Angeles high school, a girl who lit some in the ladies' room was sent to the fire chief to be lectured. Yet the pungent odor is likely to linger on; legend has it that it masks the fumes of marijuana...
...Liveright, still strapped, was ready to unload his Modern Library, a shelf of 950 reprint classics whose only liability was a distinct and unpleasant odor emanating from the binding glue. Cerf rounded up Donald Klopfer, put the arm on his Wall Street uncle, and snapped up the Modern Library, smell and all, for $200,000. Within three years, Klopfer and Cerf, having retired their debts, decided to branch out by publishing a few new books at random. Thus was Random House born...
...Washington sees more cause for hope. Veteran Sovietologist (and newly confirmed U.S. Ambassador to Moscow) Llewellyn Thompson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that Moscow now feels much freer to act than it did just a few months ago. Red China, he reasoned, is in such bad odor with the rest of the Communist world that the Russians no longer cringe whenever Peking accuses them of "collusion" with...
...National Symposium of Science and Criminal Justice, speakers told of ideas for making automobiles theft proof, computer linked alarms that would pinpoint unseen law violations, non-lethal gases to neutralize intruders and chemicals that would color a fleeing vehicle or leave a burglar with a distinctive, unshakable odor...