Word: scent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Literary Rangers, they hinted they would do, attacked with a poison in the form of a colloidal suspension carried in an alcoholic medium. It has a faint odor of mustard gas; but that characteristic odor is masked by a heavy scent of Chanel...
...compose, rewrite, and assemble news stories up to that awful time known throughout the profession as the deadline. In order to join the select company of Hu Flung Huey, Michael Mullins, and others, candidates will go through a six week competition in which they must prepare to acquire the scent for news, follow the elusive vapor to its source, and report the results in readable prose...
Last week Cordell Hull may have harvested abroad the greatest triumph of his career (see p. 13), but in the corridors of his State Department there was a distinct scent of resignation, in every sense of the word. The family, neither little nor happy, was breaking up. Latest withdrawal from a team that isn't there: Dr. Herbert Feis, since 1931 the chief economic adviser in the Department...
Like many another opportunist who leaped aboard the Fascist band wagon, Juan March's nostrils apparently told him that the band wagon was turning into a one-hoss shay. Other Spaniards sniffed the same scent. Arriba, Falange newspaper in Madrid, termed Mussolini's fall "a symbol of a defeated people" and asked: "What power, what institution can today resist defeat...
...college students filed into first meetings their was a strange soprano note in the babble. It was not coeducation, one prof called it joint instruction, and they were only a lot of Radcliffe girls. But who cared what it was, the scent of perfume filed the Yard, and skirts reminiscent of last summer, rustled in Sever...