Word: odore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time, however, passions were spent, appetites increased and people started munching the greenery again. The wilting lettuce cause pointed up a dilemma larger than lettuce: in the current climate, it is hard to turn a labor issue into a liberal cause. Labor is in bad odor with liberals these days, and even a Chavez suffers from the apathy...
...maybe four days," promises-or threatens-Bernard Mitchell, president of Chicago's Jovan, Inc., one of the biggest manufacturers. "It doesn't wash off when you swim or bathe." Its lasting quality has long made it a fixative for other perfumes, but till now its strong odor ruled it out as a separate scent...
...Southerners fighting off the sweet odor of honeysuckle...
...government and an influx of northern corporations. Durham, twenty-five miles away, seems less a city than an over-grown small town. After the Civil War, a man named Duke made the tobacco factories and they in turn made the city. Now the factories fill Durham with their distinctive odor. When shifts change, thousands of black and white khakied workers leave the big buildings to go pretty much their own separate ways...
...play. The action consists mainly in a series of tightly controlled battles of wit, each of which gathers force at swift pace, peaks, and then subsides to make way for the next demonstration of argumentative virtuosity. In Shakespeare we find ourselves in a dense forest, think with the odor of vegetable combustion and overrun with luxuriant undergrowth. Moliere places us on a manicured, perfumed lawn to follow along a box-wood maze of clipped hedges...