Word: smelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prohibited the U.S. from providing money or materials to foreign countries for paraquat spraying. House and Senate committees recently voted to repeal that restriction, although the Senate version requires that a "marker" be added to the herbicide so that potential smokers can recognize contaminated marijuana by sight or smell. No such traceable substance has yet been developed, but funds to promote spraying programs may be authorized anyway...
...dark now, and not many people are left around, so I wander the streets and reflect. Amigoland is absolutely deserted, the Mini-Mex golf course dark as night. So this is America, very imaginative, very progressive, and very wealthy. A little grease and pavement, but there's the sweet smell of exhaust in the air and fun all around. Sombrero towers; steak rooms; fireworks; mini gold; barrooms; postcards; ice cream; swimming pools. I feel at home here, comfortable...
...rascally Gelnhausen. The discredited young man takes his leave, boldly promising the group that some day he will write a book: "But let no one expect mincing pastorals, conventional obituaries, complicated figure poems, sensitive soul-blubber, or well-behaved rhymes for church congregations. No, he would let every foul smell out of the bag; a chronicler, he would bring back the long war as a word-butchery, let loose gruesome laughter, and give the language license to be what it is: crude and softspoken, whole and stricken . . . but always drawn from the casks of life...
...arrive at Quincy in September with the same outgoing attitude and distinct sense of humor that helped him through high school and his freshman year at Harvard. "It'll be a really tight squeeze." Mattlin says of the wheelchair route to the Quincy House dining hall. "There's the smell of garbage, and you have to go through the kitchen," he adds, accurately but humorously...
...have at my internal demand every expertise known to our history ... I am the most ardent people-watcher who ever lived. I watch them inside me and outside. Past and present can mingle with odd impositions in me ... I lave extremely acute hearing and vision, plus a sense of smell extraordinarily dis criminating ... You cannot hide very much from my senses...