Word: scent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urgent negotiations between Administration officials and congressional leaders were carried out in uncommon secrecy. Twice the group met at 7 a.m. at George Bush's house; each time the Vice President had already left for work, to throw sniffing journalists off the scent. There were dawn breakfasts at the homes of top White House Aide James Baker and House Budget Committee Chairman Jim Jones. The impressive result: tentative agreement on a sweeping plan to reduce the projected 1983 deficit by billions through spending cuts, adjustments to the Social Security program and new taxes. If approved, the compromise would bring...
...ardent devotee of the virtues of mesquite [March 1]. The aroma given off by this burning shrub is a little scent of heaven. If you have never had a steak char-broiled over an open mesquite fire, you haven't lived. And if you have never had soup made from the bones of that broiled steak, you really haven't lived...
...drama starring National Security Adviser Richard Allen is dragging into its fourth week, and the fact that it lasted so long without fading away was becoming its most important feature. Nothing has been proved. Nothing has been disproved. But a whiff of impropriety hangs in the air. That troublesome scent was enough to force Allen out, at least temporarily: on Sunday Allen announced he was taking an "administrative leave" from his job, effective immediately, for the duration of the Justice Department's investigation of the affair. "I fully expect to resume my duties," Allen said...
...heady scent of last Saturday's Ivy Championship fresh in their noses, the women's soccer team kicks off AIAW regional competition today with a first round contest against visiting Boston College...
...background, trying to figure out where he would go next. Five hours after he fled the scene of the crime, Abbott brazenly kept a brunch date at the apartment of a writer friend. Majeski missed him there by a few hours, but he had picked up the scent. "The way the writer described Abbott coming in and chatting on about his plans for writing more books and taking a place in the literary world of New York told me two things I hadn't known. Abbott was scared that he had already lost his literary place...