Word: scent
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...starter tapped her on the back, she was off, pushing furiously with her ski poles to gain the speed she would have to check, moments later, with a swivel-hip turn. She swept down the dizzying de scent with the verve and hell-for-leather dash of a man. Crouching, straightening, swinging her slim hips in an almost antic mimicry of a rumba step, she darted and danced through the multicolored flags that outlined the course...
...fired one of McGrath's top assistants, Theron Lamar Caudle, the influence-peddlers' buddy, without asking the advice of the Attorney General. Around the White House, there was talk that a vigilant Attorney General would have caught some of the wrongdoers before congressional committees got the scent. Last week Truman began casting around for a new Attorney General. His patronage assistant, Donald Dawson, sounded out Justin Miller, chairman of the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters, former federal judge, onetime dean of Duke University law school. This activity was reported on the nation's front pages...
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...