Word: smells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past, imitation lilacs, rhododendrons, geraniums, magnolias and orchids now look real enough to water-though lilies sometimes come with geranium leaves. Explains one Hong Kong exporter: "Sometimes God's product doesn't look natural enough, so we make hybrids." Some also come with built-in smell...
...strong smell of Limburger has inspired many a moldy joke, but the news of Limburger last week was a serious and hopeful matter. The moldy-looking coating of the cheese, a young scientist reports, contains a potent antibiotic that kills many kinds of microbes and has probably saved a lot of lives...
Public Hearing, Private Gain. Last week, as the State Investigations Commission opened the first round of public hearings on its 2½-year inquiry into the $100 million-a-year school building program, the smell of skulduggery was unmistakable. The former chief of the construction program said that he had accepted cameras, rare wines, steaks and cash ("in the spirit of Christmas giving"), but insisted that no one had ever tried to bribe him. An assistant supervisor was accused of charging a 5% "commission" to contractors to speed up profitable contract revisions. Two high Board of Education officials testified that...
...visions to irrational fervor-but nearly all are glossed over. With hardly a suggestion of the poet who wrote A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, John Osborne concentrates on the crude-voiced Luther whose notable preoccupation with bodily functions produced the line: "If I break wind in Wittenberg, they smell it in Rome...
...fiction. The events of her stories and novels are not so much perceived as vaguely apprehended, looming unexpectedly through an ambiance of feeling. In her oblique vision the disappointments of childhood are glimpsed in a puddle of frozen gutter water, the fears of adulthood suggested by the sharp, metallic smell of a nearly defunct streetcar line. The method can be tedious, but in her second novel, New Orleans-born Author Grau proves again that in the hands of a first-rate storyteller the shortest route between fact and feeling is not necessarily the straight line...