Word: scenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judges, always in full pursuit of the pack, the weeding-out process was partly simplified as some of the hounds got out of touch and ranged clear out of sight over the hills. Other hounds "babbled," i.e., bayed before the scent was picked up, and were promptly disqualified. Still others were thrown out for "loafing" (disinclination to hunt) and for "running cunning" (failing to work the proper trail...
...traits the judges sought were hunting ability (eagerness to pick up the trail); trailing, once the scent had been found; speed, drive and endurance which sometimes call for a hound to cover 35 miles in a five-hour test. By the third day of the meeting the judges had eliminated all but 100 hounds. Of these, two hounds seemed head & shoulders above the pack: Meggs White Girl, owned by Farmer J. W. Meggs of Marshville, N.C., and Dr. Luke, owned by Farmer R. B. Murphy of Bahama...
...that President Truman announced his program for mobilizing the U.S. economy, the Senate's new watchdog committee on U.S. preparedness uttered its first warning growl. After just a month's sniffing through the U.S. mobilization effort, Texas' sharp-nosed Chairman Lyndon Johnson had caught the strong scent of "business as usual" in some corners of the Defense Department's planning...
Other species are not so easy to please. Some demand deep privacy, or trees to climb, or earth to dig in, before they feel "at home." Some have peculiar demands. For instance, the slow loris (a primitive primate) marks out its territory, as many animals do, by the scent of its urine. So every time its cage is cleaned, the loris feels dispossessed. It "has to drink incredible quantities of water straight away," says Dr. Hediger, "and sprinkle the nice clean floor systematically just like a watering cart...
...like a bee at a rose, began very early to torment Rainer Maria Rilke. It tormented him unceasingly for 51 years, extracting from him a rarefied poetry that has delighted the palates of European esthetes for the last quarter-century. Yet Rilke's poetic flavors-and the morbid scent of wet rot that rises from his life-have prevented many a poetry reader from acquiring the Rilke taste...