Word: smells
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...them the right to bear arms. Patriots were particularly enraged when Congress passed a crime bill last August that banned assault weapons. Complains Henry McClain, the leader of another Florida militia unit: "The Federal Government has taken it upon themselves to regulate everything you can think or touch or smell...
...club members have found their dream dates: chickens. And perhaps they're the only females who could really tolerate the smell of being up-close-and-personal to a real, live final club member...
...smell of blood in the air has encouraged some Republicans to challenge the President even on an issue that their party has long supported. Clinton faces real trouble next week in the Senate, when the lame-duck Democratic Congress convenes to take up GATT. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is the laboriously crafted 123-nation agreement designed to lower tariff barriers. In his threatening letter demanding a delay of the vote, Senator Helms, who can make "free trade" sound like some weird practice he once saw in a Mapplethorpe photo, was trying to exploit the fact that Congress...
...discomfort. Tigger sewed, cooked, tended to animals routinely: there is a wonderfully precise description of how to sit a hen and how to candle an egg. The remnant of civilized life that every woman sought was a bolt of Liberty fabric. Lessing apparently has a formidable sense of smell. Before easy dry cleaning, everybody's clothes smelled bad. Nuns -- she attended a convent school for a while -- smelled even worse...
...TIME said they have suffered for years from the effects of petroleum pollution. "The river used to have lots of fish," said Vyacheslava Topova, who lives in Kolva, a river town in the region. "Now there are hardly any fish at all, and when we cook them, they smell bad. People here survive, but they are really worried about the future." This spill may be cleaned up by spring, as Bibikov insists. But unless Russia overhauls its aging, corroding pipelines, they will keep springing leaks and spoiling the landscape...