Word: scent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authorities did not pick up Boyce's scent until a sighting in Washington State in late July. They soon focused on the remote Olympic Peninsula. One reason: it is a habitat of falcons, Boyce's passion since childhood and the source of his nickname in a bestselling book about his spy exploits. FBI agents also suspected that Boyce was involved in a series of bank robberies in the Pacific Northwest. A suspicious title switch on a boat license turned up the name Anthony E. Lester, of Beaver, a small town 50 miles west of Port Angeles. The photograph...
...Walters, Brokaw) arrived early to cover the preparations, but soon wearied of the familiar banalities -curbside interviews with the first people to stake out viewing spots, guardsmen shining their boots, the trafficking in gimcrack souvenirs. They had come to cover a spectacle but got themselves diverted by the earthier scent of real news. It was point and counterpoint all week...
...adult company are merely involuntary signals of short-fused patience. Any competent psychiatrist remains alert to the tics and quirky expressions by which a patient's hidden emotions make themselves known. People even signal by the odors they give off, as Janet Hopson documents in superfluous detail in Scent Signals: The Silent Language of Sex. Actually, it is impossible for an individual to avoid signaling other people; the person who mutely withdraws from human intercourse sends out an unmistakable signal in the form of utter silence...
...face? Aaah. The figure? Oooh. She's even winning raves for the fragrance. Sophia Loren, 46, who teamed up with the Coty cosmetics company last fall and launched a new line of perfumes, saw her scent named Sophia take top honors at last week's Fragrance Foundation Recognition Awards. La Loren, whose own ample lines were clearly the feature attraction, offered the ladies some advice. "You should put the perfume on the hot spots," said she. "I can tell you a few of those. But others-it's impossible...
...Pyrenees at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station at Dubois, Idaho. He adds: "These dogs are three times as big as coyotes. One on one, the dog always wins. But usually the coyote just turns tail. Many won't even approach the flock because of the dog's scent...