Word: smelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hawthorne, a crowd of demonstrators came together in front of the Monaco Cinema to commemorate the 1976 uprising. Suddenly they were confronted by a large squad of white and colored riot police armed with rifles, shotguns and batons. The air was filled with the crash of breaking glass, the smell of burning tires and tear gas, and finally the sound of shots...
...three surviving Russian Orthodox seminaries. The 78 graduates, clad in black tunics and trousers, take their places in the cathedral before the ornate screen, hung with treasured icons, that separates the sanctuary from the congregation. Hundreds of candles shimmer against the gold and silver on the walls, and the smell of hot wax mingles with that of flowers...
Although I smell a stench coming from the trial of the Miami ex-policemen [May 26], I cannot condone or respect the acts of those individuals who have used it as an excuse for murder, arson and pillage. What is destroyed in the end is not inequality, discrimination or injustice, but everyone's rights and freedoms...
...train on the track." Susan Hobart, a reporter for Portland's Oregonian, added: "The living are not welcome here. The ground rejects you, trying to suck you into foot-deep mud. Chill winds knife into your spine. Ash floats in the air, killing your sense of smell. Every instinct, every emotion warns you to go away. I felt like we were trespassing, like we didn't have nature's permission to visit its ashen graves...
Republican Ronald Reagan, despite a lopsided loss to Challenger George Bush in Michigan, won easily in Oregon and was by many counts already in control of more than half of the Republican convention delegates. Said he: "There is a smell of roses in the air. We'd better start planning for the convention and beyond...