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Keep a bad team close and it will smell blood...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Men's Hockey Weak in 5-4 Win Over Dartmouth | 2/19/1994 | See Source »

Perhaps I exaggerate. Anyway, we know the overt man bashing of recent years has now refined itself into a certain atmospheric snideness -- has settled down to a vague male aversion, as if masculinity were a bad smell in the room. Man bashing is dispensed, so to speak, in aerosol spray (Man-Disss), which covers the male's nasty essence in a fine mist of shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Are They Really That Bad? | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...Munito picked up the correct cards to solve problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. For inquiries in . . . geography, botany and natural history, he selected appropriate alphabet cards. He could identify colors . . . and was adept at dominoes . . . The most logical explanation . . . was Munito's exceptional sense of sound, not smell . . . As Munito circled the cards with an "air of reflection," the trainer would . . . make an almost inaudible clicking noise with his fingernail or a toothpick. This would alert the dog to the proper selection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Dogs and Other Marvels | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...emerged from their newly constructed, modern outhouse. She chuckled. "You know, when your father visited us ten years ago, and we still had to use the public toilets, he would wait all day before going. He made your uncle take him. He was so afraid of the smell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: My Gang of Twelve | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...different from listening to a recording as hearing someone recount a meal is from actually eating it. You need to be there to smell the smoke thick in the air, to hear the guy behind you try to pick up the waitress, to watch the leader's style, to witness the musicians interactions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Need to Be There to See the Sweat | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

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