Word: scent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just what is a First Lady supposed to do? In the late 20th century the very phrase has an anachronistic scent, musty and perfumed like Great Grandmother's sachet. Yet Presidents' wives still face criticism for fiddling with the affairs of state, for doing anything much more than looking well groomed and making bland statements on behalf of unexceptionable philanthropies. The day- to-day duties of the job are no snap. Nancy Reagan plans and presides over some 20 big White House dinners each year, and makes an official appearance just about every day of the week...
...during the heat of the campaign about the Reagan Administration's "sleaze factor" has dissipated in second-term euphoria. But events of the past week suggest that the odor of sleeze still lingers on in the White House corridors, and even partisan Republican noses should be picking up the scent...
Today some tourists say the flowers appear so lifelike that one can almost smell their scent...
...cloud of thick gray smoke and the pungent scent of burning wax wafted above the jumble of gravestones in Warsaw's Powazki Cemetery last Thursday. It was All Saints' Day, and thousands of Poles had crowded into the historic burial ground to light candles in memory of the dead. This year the solemn tradition had a special poignancy. The photograph of a frail, youthful man in clerical collar had been nailed to a tree near an unmarked plot that has become the unofficial monument to those who died in the months following the imposition of martial...
...easy cop-outs, a simple loyalist among the sophists, a gauzy visionary stumbling through computer printouts. He is comfort that things are not as bad as the experts say they are. Ronald Reagan is a mood that has seeped through the land like the beguiling scent of honeysuckle on a soft Georgia night. Millions have been soothed and seduced...