Word: scenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiger on the scent, Task Force 77 stalked around the island of Formosa. Spread out across the glittering sea were 17 ships deployed around the strike carriers Midway and Lexington. Ahead and on the flank prowled four destroyers, listening for sonar pings. Off to port, screened by six more destroyers, was the carrier Princeton, an antisubmarine hunter-killer. Far to the west, 1,000-m.p.h. F8Us swept along the China coast, their sidewinder missiles inscribed with obscene messages to the Communists. "We make lots of big radar blips," said one of Midway's pilots...
...taken down with amazing efficiency, since the cast party in Belmont could not start until this job was finished. The entire set was torn down within an hour by a thirsty swarm that gathered at the scent of "Party-party." An orange trailer piled too high with wood and people careened off into the night, and the last remnants of the party were seen at Cronin's 24 hours later--hungry at last...
...masked against him. Spying on his own inner self, or on the girl and her father, becomes more important to him than anything that can happen in the workaday world, which in any case he thinks is a fraud. The girl is not unlike him: "She picks up the scent of things people are ashamed of; she sniffs at implied meanings, follows through the traces of hidden humiliations, unable to break away from them...
...ugly smell of shakedown, of labor hoodlums sweating behind the Fifth Amendment, of sordid fear, as testimony on the Chicago restaurant protection racket went into its second week. To the members of the Senate's labor-management investigating committee, it was quite clear that they had caught the scent of one of the dirtier trails in labor history...
...philosophy don lets Bach's Magnificat sing through his mind, ruminates about Hegel, and numbs his listeners with a flow of quotes from the Bible, Shakespeare, major poets and minor limericists. On the track of a murderer, Ambrose, like an unleashed puppy, will spot a new scent-a hitherto unexplored connection between the Book of Kings and the lost Amazonian city of Pirahuanaco...