Word: smell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Esso Florence in Wilmington, N.C. His seafaring instincts made an instant impression. "Joe had what we old-timers refer to as a seaman's eye," recalls Steve Brelsford, a retired Exxon captain and Hazelwood's first boss. "He had that sixth sense about seafaring that enables you to smell a storm on the horizon or watch the barometer and figure how to outmaneuver it." Because of such gifts, Hazelwood rose swiftly through the ranks. Only ten years after graduating, he became a captain, in charge of the Exxon Philadelphia, a California-to-Alaska oil tanker...
Coast Guard investigator Mark Delozier, who climbed aboard the Valdez more than three hours after the accident, says he found a "very intense" smell of alcohol on Hazelwood's breath. But Delozier also says Hazelwood did not appear intoxicated or impaired. "He was very professional," he says. "He didn't appear to be at a loss of any capabilities." No one who was aboard the Valdez has contradicted Delozier...
...constructed sculpture for the past 60 years and more. What was unusual was his decision to combine it with glass and thus make transparency, as much as spatial enclosure, a part of the sculptural effect. Wilmarth loved light. It was his madeleine, a trigger of memory, as a particular smell might be to others: "I associate the significant moments of my life with the character of light at the time." In fact, glass came before steel in his work of the early '70s, and some of his most beautiful pieces consist only of glass plate laced together with tension cable...
...Journal of Sex Research and Havelock Ellis' class texts on sexuality, are other books. Bound volumes of Playboy sit quietly next to The Groupsex Tapes and Great Bordellos of the World: An Illustrated History. Others have titles like Meat: How Men Look, Act, Walk, Talk, Dress, Undress, Taste and Smell...
...weeks ago I finally admitted that Blankie had really begun to smell. The stench in my room wasn't coming just from my roommate's rain pants left over from FOP. Maybe Blankie wouldn't have minded if I washed him just once...