Word: smells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much larger extent, the exhibition reflects the courtly dolce vita of an age that, out of fear of the future, idealized the past and hid the present behind a facade of elegance. The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga summed up the period best when he said, "It bore the mixed smell of blood and roses...
...officials have arrested perhaps two hundred of the miners themselves, but in general have tried to avoid force. The tough Guardia Civil is noticeably absent; in the mining areas, the grey-uniformed civilian security police are in charge-and as one Spaniard put it, they do not have the "smell" of the tough old order. Moving gently on the money question, the government at week's end granted 5% to 10% pay boosts to almost half the nation's miners...
...17th century La Rochefoucauld's maxims were full of bee stings and rare perfumes. Lec's often have the smell of burnt flesh and of sickly sweet gas, the feel of barbed wire, and a vision of the world from a hollow...
What dazzles the refugees is the abundance of food. Every crowded Hong Kong street is redolent of salt dried fish and the sharp smell of pickles. Vendors offer oranges, bananas and cakes; the stalls of Market Row gleam with eggplant, squash and tomatoes. Workers throng the pork shops to buy succulent halves of crisp, glazed pig. Store fronts are filled with families clustered around rice bowls and side dishes of meat and fish...
...ancient dangers, and nature has had plenty of time to evolve defenses. X rays and gamma rays are a subtler peril. Until recently, they were unimportant hazards in the human environment; evolution largely ignored them. Modern man can wander unheeding into strong radiation that he cannot feel, see, hear, smell or taste. And unless he carries an artificial radiation sense (a Geiger counter, ionization chamber, etc.), he may get a fatal dose without a suspicion of an alarm...