Word: smelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...views of some U.N. officials that casting the refugees purely as victims suggests a lack of moral memory. "These are the people responsible for most of the murders," says one official in Nairobi. "Yes, we have to feed them. But we also have to pursue justice. I can still smell all the bodies in Kigali. Imagine these killers now as helpless victims. It's obscene...
...contribute to American culture as much as the next person, but I do not believe it has be forced upon everyone else in the world. In many ways Americans are completely unaware of the sentiment this awakens in other people. They think people from other countries are rude or smell or do not bathe often enough. We are recent arrivals on the world scene and nothing is more obnoxious than making the wrong first impression then trying to cover for it by being even more beligerent and arrogant. Stillman, an ex-patriate for much of his life, understand this sentiment...
...soon forget the images of a young Americus woman screaming as the waters of Town Creek engulfed her car and swept her and her baby downstream. Or of dozens of coffins from Albany cemeteries bobbing in the clay-stained waters that washed through city streets. Or of the foul smell that permeated rural Macon County for days after 250,000 chickens drowned, forcing National Guardsmen to don masks to pick up the rotting carcasses...
...year-old in 1969. "In the Haight-Ashbury, I rented a cheap flat and furnished it a la mode with a massive stereo and a mattress on the floor. Something new and exciting seemed to enter my orbit almost daily -- seven-grain bread, Zen meditation, the pungent smell of eucalyptus leaves. There was an earthquake, 4.7 on the Richter scale ... And one night at the Fillmore Auditorium, while Janis Joplin was wailing on stage, a girl in a see-through blouse ran up and kissed me without any warning at all. O, man. California...
...reform for months once more mounted an all-out attack. After Democrats in the House Ways and Means Committee tried to build a coalition with tax cuts and other sweeteners, House minority whip Newt Gingrich told colleagues to vote against amendments designed to broaden support for reform. "These guys smell blood," said a top Republican Senate aide. "Republicans believe they are inches away from handing this President a major, major defeat." Some in Clinton's camp, too, would rather fight than compromise. But for now, Clinton is betting on a deal. The Republicans may soon seize the moment, since both...