Word: smell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maybe it's a farewell supper -- you'll see soon enough," one guard told his prisoners. As the group was departing, the hotel staff handed out orange roses. "I want you guys to know that sometimes in life you have to take time out to smell the roses," said Hostage Jerome Barczak as he sniffed...
Kenan is a drunken academic past his prime--his office is said to smell of urine and sex--who surpasses any picture of the worst fate of old tenured professors. Reeves's juicy portrayal of Kenan may feed many a Cantabridgian imagination, particularly the Harvard faculty gossip-minded...
...only existing pictures of her mother and spouse. Nadine Fosky, 22, "lost, quite simply, everything." Clothes. School papers. Her special Buddhist chanting scroll. She anguished over it all -- even over the very special scent of her house. Said she: "Someone said that a house takes on a certain familiar smell of a family over the years, and that once it's lost it takes years to get it back...
...family tensions on Canada's ethnic problems. "She told each of her five daughters as they grew up that they were conceived in horror; that she could have left them in their hospital cots and not looked back, so sickened was she by their limp spines and the autumn smell of their hair, by their froglike movements and their animal wails...
Bosses increasingly frown on employees who smell of liquor after lunch, and aggressive yuppies, some of whom have turned to the coke spoon instead of the bottle, fear that booze will slow them down. "You can't run on the fast track with demon rum eating at your stamina," says Sam Wolfe, a recent University of North Carolina law school graduate. "I can't remember a single business meeting in a long time where anybody's had a drink," says Warner LeRoy, owner of New York City's Maxwell's Plum. When someone orders a stiff one, "a mental trigger...