Word: scenting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Almost every time I walk between Boylston and Wigglesworth Hall, I get a whiff of the heavenly scent of laundry, the familiar and comforting smell of Tide Original Scent and Downy. My pleasure in this perfume is momentary, however, as I remember that the source of this pleasant olfactory experience is harming the environment and my fellow citizens...
...meters; only throwing myself at the pile of soldiers huddled between the humvee and the mountainside. Mortars coming from the Korengal outpost lit up the sky in flashes. I could see a tangle of limbs and chests heaving to suck in oxygen. The smell of sweat intermingled with the scent of the mountain sage bushes we were crushing under our cumulative weight. My head rang with the sound of returning fire coming from the guy on my left as he aimed at the darkness below. Adam Ferguson, TIME's photographer, actually stood up to take pictures. It felt like...
...Oddly absent from the discussion of how well Wells Fargo did is why the government was in the midst of testing bank balance sheets at all. The experts at the Treasury had been thrown off the scent and consequently had missed the fact that there was not need to test what is already working well. The same holds true for the Geithner plan to take toxic assets off bank balance sheets. It is academic now. What banks are earning from the difference between the cost of capital and the income from lending is now great enough for the banking system...
...Dolce and Stefano Gabbana know a thing or two about making a woman look glamorous. Their debut cosmetics line, with ads featuring Scarlett Johansson, promises to live up to the hype. No detail escaped their attention, from the color palette gleaned from their fabric swatches to the powdery rose scent of the lipstick and even the click...
Daydreaming about Harvard in high school, you may have imagined wood-panel rooms lined with dozens of Gutenberg Bibles and the busts of ancient Greek philosophers—a haven where students would absorb knowledge from the mere scent of the ancient books surrounding them. Uhhhh...maybe not. Maybe you just smoked pot or played the sousaphone. But anyway, you'll grant FlyBy that studying at Harvard is not quite the stuff of dreams (especially in the early morning). That's where the House libraries come in. Many replicate a sense...