Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heroic Sniff. With such encouragement, the Yemeni dissidents lost no time. Supported by Republican tribesmen called down to San'a from the hills, they moved four tanks into the city's dusty squares, took over the Presidential Palace and, in a matter-of-fact broadcast over the government radio station, announced that Sallal had been removed "from all positions of authority." Not a shot was fired; not a single Yemeni stood up to defend Sallal. In Baghdad, Sallal asked for political asylum, sniffing heroically that "every revolutionary must anticipate obstacles and difficult situations...
...performs a generous act. They are animals, but first of all they are theatrical animals. They hold the stage like a military position. An actor long before he became a playwright, Pinter writes scenes with which actors can rivet an audience's attention. His stage animals circle and sniff and snarl and claw at each other, and the odor of vitality permeates the playhouse. These animals have been released from the cages of the poor; they are nasty and virulent over trifles, since the little they have to lose is their all. In this asphalt-jungle world, all trust...
Such praise results from Scammon's thorough knowledge of a huge bin of sociological statistics, from which he is able to sniff out the elusive mood of the voters and come up with the right answer. Though he is obviously not always right, he has been so consistently accurate that political bosses, Presidents, Congressmen and Washington observers have come to depend on his analyses. He was, for example, one of the minuscule band of political scientists who thought Harry Truman had a chance...
...rank with Dylan's best. "Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire/ And though the holes were rather small/ They had to count them all..."--this refers to Scotland Yard's search for bodies buried in a moor. The method they used was to sink poles in the earth and sniff the ends for the odor of decomposing flesh. "Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall," the song continues. I.E., now they know that an audience, like the audience on the record, is so many dead, empty, hollow, units of loneliness. "I'd love...
...roof garden of the Czech pavilion are favored companions for souvenir snapshots. The liveliest furor has been stirred up by the "Fantasy Garden" atop the French pavilion, which features Niki de Saint-Phalle's bouncy papier-machelike manikins engaged in combat with the machines of Jean Tinguely. "Fiendish!" sniff elderly English matrons. "Great, wild, erotic!" says a Montreal college-student Expo guide...