Word: smells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practical advantages over oils are legion. Synthetic paint is cut with ordinary tap water instead of turpentine, thus has little or no smell and is nontoxic. Unlike oils, it dries in minutes and does not change color in the process. When dry, synthetic paint up to three-quarters of an inch thick bends readily without buckling or cracking, so that tomorrow's test-tube Titians may safely be rolled up for shipment...
...Correspondent Dan Rather got back to Washington for a breather. There, his boss, News Director William Small, wanted to know how the campaign seemed to be going. Rather could not say. At today's pace, he explained, "you don't have time to get the sense, the smell of the campaign. You whip in and whip...
...sleuthing is carried out by the energetic director, James J. Rorimer, and his globe-trotting staff, who scrutinize possibilities with "everything from smell to X rays." Rorimer refuses to tell how his hawkshaws receive their tips. Says he: "Reporters don't reveal their sources and neither do we." The director concedes that masterpieces may be heard of through "a letter, a phone call, a whisper," that U.S. embassies are sometimes sources of information, and that "it is a business fraught with difficulties-wiretapping, fraud, forgeries...
...after dark, when traffic diminishes, that Tokyo really begins to build. Bulldozers and steamrollers emerge like nocturnal predators; the smell of hot tar and the chatter of jackhammers shatter the night. In Shinjuku, Tokyo's Greenwich Village, and along the Ginza, an army of orangehelmeted workmen swarms out to remove temporary planks covering the streets, while trailer trucks roar up to dump fuming loads of fill into yawning caverns. Thousands of lights sway in the evening breeze, sending crooked shadows under the neon. At dawn, the trucks and workers disappear like cockroaches. Then the city's kamikaze...
...lakefront home in Waverly. Minn. To most men. this would hardly be an unpleasant prospect, and Humphrey himself admits that after hectic weeks in the capital, he likes nothing better than to visit Waverly to "put on a pair of blue jeans, get out in a boat-and just smell...