Word: smells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winston-Salem (pop. 118,000), where it employs one in every five workers, is the city's biggest booster and a major contributor to civic drives. From the company's red brick factories and its 22-story limestone office building, the tallest in North Carolina, the quick and pungent smell of tobacco drifts pleasantly over the city...
...smell of battle was strongest in Detroit's Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, where representatives of 14 states gathered last week for the Democratic Midwest Conference. All the candidates, or their representatives, were on hand, along with such non-Midwesterners as New Jersey's Governor Robert Meyner and Oregon's Wayne Morse. The smiling face of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson beamed from posters in the hotel corridors, with arrows underneath pointing to the suite where a hospitable supply of Jack Daniel's whiskey flowed. Moreover, sagacious House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 78, was on hand to exploit...
...Whitman's Duet for a Small Smell was introduced by the burning of sulphur, which put the audience into paroxysms of coughing. That made them "part of the act," Whitman figured. At the climax, a girl stabbed a dummy, but not violently. "A violent stabbing would be much too literary...
...close as Kirchhofer wants anyone to approach. Before long a flurry of blue memos pours from his desk to every department. Sensing the news possibilities in some current local development, Kirchhofer hands out the assignment. "I can't put my hands on the fish," he says, "but the smell is there." By two o'clock, with the help of 190 respectful and sometimes awe-struck editorial staffers, Editor Kirchhofer has produced an other issue of the newspaper that is as much a part of Buffalo as its 400,000 city-owned trees...
...partly because he seems to share the same ideas about what makes life not worth living. (Sorme is working on a book on "the modern sense of dispossession" that sounds remarkably like Wilson's Outsider.) With the help of "a Mozart symphony, a hot frankfurter sausage, the smell of acetone," Gerard sometimes gets "a new grip on being alive...