Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ritual Bite. Sometimes a wolf appears to be eating Dr. Ginsburg, but its play bites are only a ritualistic greeting. Wolves say hello, explains Ginsburg, by nipping each other's muzzles. So he greets his research subjects the same way. "We sniff at each other," he says, "and then the wolf takes my face in his jaws. I bite him back, but since my jaws aren't big enough, I bring my hands up to grasp his muzzle. This seems to be satisfactory...
...cops also use dogs to help them track down criminals; one German shepherd, specially trained to sniff out narcotics, recently led officers to a cache of marijuana hidden in a meat freezer beneath ten pounds of frankfurters. The techniques are unusual-and so are the results: last year the average crime rate in U.S. cities with a population of more than 25,000 rose 2%; in St. Louis, however, it dropped a surprising...
Advice from Europe. Many bankers both at home and abroad sniff that this is overly mild medicine. The real reason for the continuing gold drain, they argue, lies in low U.S. interest rates, which encourage U.S. investment capital to flow out to higher-interest countries abroad...
...explanation may lie in Nabokov's hypersensitivity to what is written about him. He does not at all enjoy the spectacle of clumsy minds trying to sniff out the "true" Nabokov. In Switzerland, where he now lives with his wife in a hotel overlooking Lake Geneva, he is abnormally cautious in what he says to reporters. Lolita was praised or damned with energy and ignorance by almost everyone licensed to operate a typewriter...
...Kitchen? "We're surrounded," said the Chicago Tribune in mock despair. In Teddy's move, the Tribune thought it could sniff the course of U.S. politics for years to come: "President John F. (1961-69), President Robert F. (1969-77), President Edward F. (1977-), and before you know it we are in 1984, with Caroline coming up fast and John F. Jr. just behind her." New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond, while noting in a graver vein that dynasties have never had much appeal for U.S. voters, added that "from the standpoint of future Presidential elections, there...