Word: scent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were, calamitously. Communists and Communoids in the U.S. Government. Joe did little to root them out. But he learned, to the dismay of his colleagues, to the shame of the executive branch and to the delight of the press, how to bay the loudest when others were following the scent. The myth of McCarthy, The Red Hunter, was hard to kill during the Truman Administration, which had gone on record as considering some of the most serious and necessary Red hunts as "red herrings...
...cook with a big choice of toys featuring miniature cans and packages of such brand-name products as Campbell Soup, Betty Crocker Cake Mix and Suchard Chocolate. They can clean with Marilyn Products, Inc.'s battery-powered Electrikbroom Jr. ($7.98) and make their own perfumes (Rajah's Scent, Power Dive, Boing, Shmooth, Jeepers...
...heat off the government, and the government in turn turned more heat on the case. It promptly suspended Jean Mons from his secretary-general's post, then indicted him for "laxity" in imperiling the the handling of nation's state security secrets. and Then police caught the scent of André Baranès: Jean Dides, after withholding the information for two days, reported that he was hiding out in a country house south of Paris. The hiding place, oddly enough, was provided not by the Communists but by a right-wing deputy of the National Assembly...
Finely Bred. In Phenix City, Ala., when three bloodhounds were put on the trail of a fugitive: 1) all refused to enter the woods until a reporter stomped out a trail for them, 2) one dog got lost, 3) a second followed the scent of one of the cops, 4) a third got sick riding in a truck, 5) all three got hay fever from sniffing the dusty ground...
...British welfare state. Either way, only the vulgarest opportunists ever sought to bypass the queue by climbing aboard the open rear platform of a halted bus between stops. Last week, however, once respectable middle-aged businessmen and elderly ladies were kiting after stopped buses like hounds on the scent...