Word: smell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must have thought that the guy with the wad was a shill. Or maybe, she was just like the hundreds of other people we stopped who did not want to look like they needed the money. Maybe they were all too busy to stop for a while and smell the roses. Maybe they were all too accustomed to thinking they can get something for nothing, only to find out that you have to sign up for seven months of Physicist's Weekly in order to get a free gift. Maybe their experience had told them that we were just...
This is not to say that the public was necessarily delighted with The Miami Herald's handling of its coverage. Reporters who hide in bushes smell to us of sleaze; we hope that in the future such callow tactics will not be repeated, and that newspapers will take time to make sure that their stories are accurate before publishing...
...people came to smell the roses. Montgomery, whose 13-acre concern has a $4.6 million annual billing, said $900,000 of it comes from contacts made at the flower show. He was one of 53 major exhibitors. Their flora took up six acres under the roof of the Philadelphia Civic Center. Montgomery is as good as anyone at giving a primer on the mercantile side of the matter...
...been a pupil of Cellist Emanuel Feuermann in Germany. Saito was aware his students lacked cultural grounding. "He said that if you know the music and have no tradition, then you must go to Europe," remembers Ozawa. "If you have talent, you should have a very good nose to smell which is good tradition and which...
Nakasone is not required to leave office until October. Not long ago he was rumored to be hoping for yet another extension. Now leading L.D.P. contenders for his job evidently smell blood. Last week former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, one of three likely successors to Nakasone, abruptly canceled a visit to the U.S. planned for April. Abe explained that he was needed to campaign for the L.D.P. in the local elections. He did not have to add that, for Nakasone, April could well be the cruelest month -- and not a good time for ambitious politicians to be out of town...