Word: scent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hide them under my bed. Then the rabbi came to my room to see how I was doing. You could hear the lobsters clicking and clacking each other with their tails. The rabbi just sort of stared and sniffed the air; he must have wondered what that tref scent was, lingering in the kid's bedroom. The minute the rabbi left, my mom and I gleefully threw the lobsters into a pot of boiling water and then ate them...
...restoration. The Great Hall is a maze of scaffolding. Fans hum everywhere, drying out plaster. Bare bulbs hang down all over. Occasionally there is the frantic sound of beating wings, a gull or a pigeon come in through a smashed window. Here and there is the faintest scent...
...bought 27 years ago, but knew she would miss most poignantly what had been the only existing pictures of her mother and spouse. Nadine Fosky, 22, "lost, quite simply, everything." Clothes. School papers. Her special Buddhist chanting scroll. She anguished over it all -- even over the very special scent of her house. Said she: "Someone said that a house takes on a certain familiar smell of a family over the years, and that once it's lost it takes years to get it back...
...scent of reform is in the air on Capitol Hill as well. The leaders of the movement span the political spectrum. They include Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Congressman Richard Gephardt of Missouri, both moderate Democrats, Senator Bob Kasten of Wisconsin and Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, both conservative Republicans. In the Senate last week, Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood began hearings on at least three different taxreform packages, predicting flatly, "There will be a tax-reform bill this year." If there is not, declared Delaware Republican William Roth, the committee's first witness, "we will have...
...Protestant clergy. Unemployment in the region stands at 9%, and in some pockets is almost double that. Roth and his colleagues in the radical Denominational Ministry Strategy repeatedly blamed local businessmen for the economic suffering in the mill towns. D.M.S. and its allies adopted such maneuvers as spraying skunk scent in the vaults of Mellon banks and disrupting worship services attended by executives. Roth's political preaching and his support of D.M.S. despite its tactics incensed many members of his church...