Word: smelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stunned by this pawn sacrifice. What could it mean? I had played a lot of computers but had never experienced anything like this. I could feel--I could smell--a new kind of intelligence across the table. While I played through the rest of the game as best I could, I was lost; it played beautiful, flawless chess the rest of the way and won easily...
Sometimes this evil nonsense takes the form of language. Sometimes it is a powerful presence that lives just beneath the surface of articulation. Even when it is subarticulate, everyone recognizes it instantly--feels its menace, knows its smell, a radioactive something that registers on the mind's Geiger counter. The signals are unmistakable--the sneer, a semaphore of eyebrows, the "lock-and-load" swagger...
...walk around the river houses on a Saturday night, students say, you can smell the odor of marijuana wafting through...
...some offer alcohol-free family sections in the stands. But a lot of women with keys to the family station wagon, RV or muscle car have found that they love the sport for its own sake. Says Anderson: "We used to joke that we wished you could bottle the smell of the track...
...when people are truthful, online relationships are necessarily limited. "You're only accessing a portion of a person," points out psychologist Michelle Weil of Orange, California. "As people, we need a tactile physical presence to make a complete bond. We need to see their face, see their gestures and smell their breath." Jonathan Steuer, an Internet consultant who lives in San Francisco with a woman he courted by E-mail, agrees: "Finding someone online is great as long as you take it to the face-to-face level and have a real-life relationship...