Word: odore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police guard, detectives were following up clues, and bomb experts were sifting through the ruins of the Grand Hotel. Their efforts yielded what Commander Bill Hucklesby, head of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist branch, called "significant items." Police theorize that the bomb, possibly wrapped in plastic to hide its odor from police dogs, was planted behind a panel in a bathroom of the hotel by I.R.A. "sleeper agents" long resident in England. The device was apparently detonated by a sophisticated microchip timer that could have been preset weeks earlier...
...butter stinketh!" was all it took for an undergraduate to be expelled for insubordination in 1766. But although the food may have improved in the last two hundred years, the men who rule Harvard have not. If you dare declare "Weinberger stinketh..." or "Duarte recketh.." with the pungent odor of burning flesh, you may be tossed out of school...
That mood lasted not quite 24 hours - until Gromyko mounted the podium Thursday morning for his speech to the U.N. General Assembly. His face wrinkling at times into the expression of a man who has scented a peculiarly unpleasant odor, Gromyko for 75 minutes assailed the U.S. as the cause of all political tensions that have plagued the world since 1946. His speech, delivered in an icy monotone, was replete with outrageous assertions ("Provocative intrigues continue against sov ereign and nonaligned Afghanistan") and devoid of the slightest hint of a change in Moscow's position on any subject...
...police say that she was driving erratically. When they pulled her over outside the Cue and Cushion-the last bar her family's killer patronized-she refused to take a Breathalyzer test. Says Officer Richard Primavera: "She swayed, she stumbled, her speech was slurred, and there was an odor of alcohol...
...take a trip to the seventh floor of the William James building you will find an experiment that seems to belong near some statue in a square rather than Harvard's psychology research labs. As you pass through the hallway door, clicking noises and a strange odor will lure you to an experimental lab that Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein has made into the permanent residence for more than 20 pigeons. These birds, however, are not ordinary pets, nor are they statue pigeons; rather, they are part of Herrnstein's ongoing psychological experiments...