Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Predictably, the CIA looked daggers and spread its cloak over all. But a sniff of something escaped, and that was all Reporter Clark Mollenhoff needed. Last week, after piecing the details together and talking with Tofte, Mollenhoff spread the story over his papers, the Minneapolis Star and Tribune and the Des Moines Register and Tribune...
...Sniff Before Injecting
...next few months at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, immersing himself in F.D.R.'s prewar foreign policy in preparation for Volume IV of The Age of Roosevelt. He will surely return some day to Washington, for, as an unfriendly writer puts it, he likes to "sniff at the hem of power" too much to stay away permanently...
...atmosphere). The sharpest prod to coffee sales is the smell of freshly ground beans. A hotel has ordered spray cans full of roast-beef aroma to step up banquet-hall trade; an artificial-flower company is spraying its false blooms with essence of the natural thing. Now, sniff this page. Catch that scent of fine coated paper and printer's ink? It's the genuine article...
...arrived. Reason: the very threat of inflation often attracts investors afraid that their money will erode elsewhere and tends to give the market that boomy feeling. Though most economists agree that inflation is no serious threat to the economy right now, Wall Streeters believe that they have begun to sniff a hint of it in the air. Every warning about its dangers-such as the current statement by the New York Federal Reserve Bank that the economy "is clearly vulnerable to inflationary pressures"-seems only to strengthen the scent. Last week this "inflation syndrome," plus some good news about...