Word: scenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face the Allies-and the natives-in a shattered town in Belgium, newly liberated from the Nazis. An American officer (Stanley Ridges) is in charge of reconstruction an English officer (Gavin Muir) holds services in the broken church; a Russian military doctor (Carl Esmond) uses his political sophistication to scent out local disaffection at its sources...
...wheat field. "I heard a German officer give the order to shoot me on sight. Later they brought hounds . . . but the wonderful French people came to my aid. They milled all around the aircraft and so confused the dogs that it was impossible for them to pick up my scent." After dark, the French took him to a farmhouse, gave him peasant clothes and false papers identifying him as a "specialist carpenter...
...forward observation post in the south, where the stench of high explosives and of the dead defiled the delicate scent of apple blossoms, leathery, bullet-headed Marshal Ivan Konev last week briefed his commanders. He spoke of the new power of the Red Air Force and of its first function: close, devoted support of troops on the ground. Almost as he spoke, swarms of Stormomks skimmed over the apple trees to blast the German troops, gun positions and tanks...
...Makes Scents. In Warsaw, N.Y., County Prison Sheriff Lewis Spring has all incoming prisoners photographed, finger printed and sniffed by a bird dog, which "makes a mental note of their scent...
...West has developed its own breed of hounds-big, rangy, fast "black and tans." Hunters start training with a sackful of house cats for practice treeing. Only after two seasons of running with veterans do most dogs learn to disregard deer trails and stay on the cougar scent...