Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From there, the ship was followed by Royal Air Force jets; as she entered the Strait of Gibraltar she was joined by a British destroyer. The Q.E.'s crew was augmented for the occasion by at least 50 security men and several Labrador retrievers whose mission was to sniff out any explosives that might be hidden within the ship. With three tons of matzoth in the pantry to be served during the eight-day Passover, one joke circulating on board was that, if necessary, the passengers could always float to safety on a raft of unleavened bread...
...which the son and one of his father's friends inspect a room full of round Italian salamis. Bobbing in front of a pink wall, the salamis swing in and out of focus, all at different depths, reflecting the shapes of the actors' heads as they sniff the curing meats and talk...
...heard of teams not even having a smell of a chance to win a game. Well, last night at Boston Garden, the Crimson didn't even offer the Huskies half a sniff as Bob Harrison's club raced to an insurmountable 50-25 halftime lead...
...When the Mammoth Mountain people read your story, you will have a lot more than a fractured tibia. It will take a dozen St. Bernards to sniff you out from under an avalanche of critical mail for ignoring that great ski resort...
...amyl acetate (which smells like bananas) to see if they could tell the difference. They could. So they decided to give similar tests and to create a cadre of "trained noses." When a citizen complains about an odor, a jury of tested state employees will rush out to sniff and then decide if the law has been violated...