Word: scent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, when Governor James Byrnes announced that his longtime friend, Donald Stuart Russell, would be the admiral's successor, the odor of politics arose again. But this time the scent was false. Students, alumni and facultymen had been consulted, and all had agreed that Russell was a good choice...
...first flamed aloft had gone home. Darkness closed in along the neat cement walks separating the rows of bungalows where they had lived. The only sounds in the deserted town were the echo of Iranian sentries' boots and the whimper of an abandoned dog sniffing vainly for the scent of his British master...
...them all about recent English literature. The shock comes when Charles-Edouard ushers Grace into Paris society. Titled beauties, their faces "gaily painted with no attempt at simulating nature," flow through the salons in a kaleidoscope of crinolines, jewels, naked shoulders and almost naked bosoms, leaving warm waves of scent behind them...
...Senate committee already knew the black market in nickel was far bigger than Flurey. The chairman, Michigan's Blair Moody, ex-reporter for the Detroit News, first got on the scent two months ago when a Detroit businessman complained that one Marshall C. Thomas of Norwalk, Conn, was offering nickel at $4.50 a Ib. After questioning Thomas and others, the committee discovered nickel was so short even such giants as General Electric and Westinghouse were buying in the black market. G.E.'s small-appliances division, for example, paid Thomas $4.50 a Ib. for 10,000 Ibs. of nickel...
...never officially questioned about the case. In the past year, stories of how Holohan died appeared in the Italian press, and there were a few very incomplete hints in the U.S. press. But the details might never have been told if True magazine had not got on the scent, pulled the story together. Last week, when an advance copy of True reached Washington, the Defense Department dashed into print with a story it could bottle up no longer. The Rochester police then made public LoDolce's year-old confession. Last week he partially repudiated the confession, saying that...