Word: scenting
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...where the 9 p.m. curfew has not prevented Arabs from clustering to hear Cairo radio's nightly exhortations to "rise up and act for the glory of the Arab world," the Israelis face a crisis in cooperation. The Arabs feel the uncertainty of Gaza's status, and scent change. Urchins openly hawk cigarette lighters bearing Nasser's picture. Authorities last week arrested 20 Gaza teachers for assigning teen-age pupils to write essays on the need for killing Israelis. Merchants were refusing to accept Israeli money, and the only shop that the Israelis had opened...
...conveys odor-laden air to smell organs inside the mouth. After the snake has sunk its fangs in a small, warm animal, it does not try to hold it. The animal runs a few feet or yards until the poison brings it down. Then the snake follows by scent, flicking its delicate tongue, and starts the slow business of swallowing the meal. The injected venom contains a substance that starts the digestive process before the animal reaches the snake's stomach...
...performance was a fair success, and La Scala offered her another guest appearance. But Callas had the scent of triumph in her nostrils. Haughtily, she refused. They would hire her as a full-fledged member of the company, or they would not get her at all. "They expected me to beg for a role. I would rather have died," she told friends. In 1951 La Scala capitulated. At the age of 28, she opened the Scala season in Sicilian Vespers...
Next day the Daily Mirror's irrepressible columnist, Cassandra, described Liberace as "this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, scent-impregnated, chromium-plated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love" and declared that "he is the summit of sex-the pinnacle of Masculine, Feminine and Neuter . . ." The Sunday Pictorial ran a story headlined MY LOVELY BOY, by "Momma Liberace," and printed a picture made up half of his face, half of hers...
...Galsworthy, precise, ruminative, articulate, but decorously genteel to the point of inaudibility. Critics who for more than a decade have touted him as a new Stendhal are simply chasing the wrong literary genealogy. In the Snow-Galsworthy vision, the middle class can have no Stendhalian tragedies, only troubles. The scent of Homecoming is well-bred but unmistakable: it's Yardley Soap opera...