Word: smell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soft. Do you?" reads the advertisement. Avon, the door-to-door cosmetics giant, is coy about the bath oil's secret. But it seems to be this: when mixed in equal parts with water and applied to the body, Skin So Soft (price: $8.99 a pint) makes the wearer smell like a flower bed, but for some reason repels bugs. Avon claims to be baffled about why this is so, but the bath oil's reputation has spread by word of mouth. Among the devotees: former President Jimmy Carter, who uses it to keep away...
...least the garbage was out of the sight and smell of most Alaskans. Some Chicagoans are not so fortunate. "As you bike past certain streets, you are overwhelmed by rancid smells of rotting garbage," says Jeannie Little of Greenville, S.C., passing though the Windy City on a tour of the U.S. From an apartment in a pricey neighborhood she can see rats in the alley below snacking on spilled morsels. Says Little: "I'm horrified by the fact that we generate so much garbage and don't have a place...
...Federal Government and four states in the Delaware River estuary, an area ringed by heavy industry and home to almost 6 million people. The Delaware's pollution problems began in Benjamin Franklin's day. By World War II, the river had become so foul that airplane pilots could smell it at 5,000 ft. President Franklin Roosevelt even considered it a threat to national security. In 1941 he ordered an investigation to determine whether gases from the water were causing corrosion at a secret radar installation on the estuary...
...begins to smell a little like a loyaltyoath, and that bothers me," Harvard's Miller said.He noted that federal law already requires allcolleges and universities to have a comprehensivedrug policy in place in order to receive federalfunds...
...hard it must be to surrender, to never again put on spikes and smell the new-mown grass of an empty stadium. But how much harder it must be to walk out to the pitching mound or step into the batter's box knowing that you are expected to compete against striplings half your age. That is the bravery of Ryan, John, Sutton and Nettles as each game they pray that the mind can still command the muscles, that cunning can compensate for crumbling coordination. Men in their 40s are not meant to be gladiators; they are designed...