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...scouting party came back with an adverse report. The problem of housing and protecting the President in unfamiliar surroundings and setting up adequate communications raised all sorts of complications. Besides, local politicians had already gotten scent of the enterprise and would clamor for the President's ear wherever he decided to relax. Harry Truman listened, then wearily agreed to postpone the trip. But he admitted at last that he needed rest-except for two quick trips to Missouri, he had taken the heavy hammering of Washington for eight straight months...
...arms, but it is disappearing fast. Backed by a law banning private possession of arms (maximum penalty: ten years' imprisonment), Italian police and carabinieri began ferreting out the Red arsenals in 1947. They relied on detective work and tipsters, hunted with police dogs trained to spot the scent of the grease that is used in preserving guns. They found what they were looking for in walled-up cellars, under haystacks and manure piles, in football stadiums, cemeteries and abandoned churches. By 1950's end, their haul in light arms was almost enough to have equipped six infantry divisions...
cannon With the scent and bloom of a lilac spray...
...scout bee cannot smell flowers at any great distance; its odor perception is about as sharp as a man's. But when it alights on a flower to which it has been attracted by sight, it is so close to the flower's scent glands that very faint odors are perceptible. Most flowers have "scent spots," which the bee feels out with the organs of smell on its antennae. The scent spots lead the scout to the cups where the nectar lies...
...content of 5% does not interest a bee; such nectar would spoil in the hive before it could be concentrated into long-keeping honey. A 20% sugar content is satisfactory, and 40% makes the bee wildly enthusiastic. It sucks up some nectar and marks the flower with its own scent from a gland on its abdomen. Having thus staked a claim, it heads back to the hive to spread the glad news...