Word: scented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of War, Navy and Interior Antonio Guiteras, a onetime pharmacist who had somehow got Cuba's 1,000 sailors in his pocket, fled to a Cuban gunboat in the harbor. A few amiable soldiers and civilians stood guard around President Hevia's palace. Getting the heavy scent of trouble, the ABC revolutionary society boys handed around a fresh shipment of guns. Two days after he had been sworn in, President Hevia suddenly sent his resignation, not to his father-in-law Supreme Court Justice Edelman who had administered the oath, but to Colonel Batista. Then he dropped...
...trace of a radiation that came neither from outer space nor from earth's radioactive substances. It seemed to Professor Rossi that in darting through sheets of metal the primary cosmic rays gave birth to a secondary radiation of electric particles. Two other physicists got on the scent, found that the secondary particles were generated in the form of showers-like spray from the splash of passing cosmic rays. Then Professor Rossi hooked up a new arrangement of coincidence counters, made further discoveries about the spray, which last week he reported. Coincidence counters are multiple arrangements of individual counting...
...these "frescoes" is a personification of the U. S. landscape as a naked girl: She lies on her left side her flank golden: Her hair is burned black with the strong sun: The scent of her hair is of dust and of smoke on her shoulders: She has brown breasts and the mouth of no other country...
...sounds of a diver talking through a sea of molasses. How stupid all this was! Just last night, or was it last night? he had been dancing with the most beautiful women in all the world. Their faces still floated around him, and he could remember the faint scent of sachet. A Junior Usher can muscle in on almost everything. They had spoken to him like dream women wrapping him in an aura of honeyed words. He could feel the pulse of the orchestra and see the colored revolving spot ferret out the sparkle in some darling eye or sprinkle...
...Airedale originated last century when middle-class and laboring Englishmen in the Aire River Valley tried to improve the scent and watermanship of their local terriers by crossing them with otterhounds. First called Waterside terrier, the new dog was renamed Airedale...