Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chlorophyll content of ocean plankton, a principal source of the world's oxygen supply. By similar "fingerprinting," ERTS and its successors could warn of changes in the health of woodlands, detect harmful acidity in soil, find clues to new oil and mineral deposits, and perhaps even sniff out illegal fields of opium poppies...
...leaving bags containing barometric-pressure bombs that detonate at specific altitudes to be put aboard jets. Airlines responded by requiring passengers to hand over luggage personally on the assumption that no one flying in an airplane would bomb it. Now they are also experimenting with dogs that can sniff out explosives...
...same cannot always be said of the product brewed by his competitors. Says Fred Murrell of the Treasury Department's Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division: "We've found them making it in hog pens-harder for an agent to sniff it out that way. Sometimes there are rotted varmints in the shine. Why, the basic commodity is so raunchy, the public hasn't the foggiest idea how bad the stuff really is." However, moonshining is becoming less and less of a problem. In 1959 Government agents "cut" (smashed up) 9,225 stills; the number smashed dwindled...
...only person who has ever been asked to leave a Woolworth store because my autistic son started howling with fear when someone's dog came up to sniff him over. The dog was tolerated, but society is unable to accommodate this kind of misbehavior in public from a deviant human...
...world--even as small a part of it as Hollywood. The agonizing tension communicated by the old crusaders--Agee, MacDonald, Warshow--is now lacking. Since the educated came to recognize that talented men have already created lasting works of cinema art, it's become more acceptable to say, sniff, that Dreyer is a poet in light; or, sigh, that John Ford is the lyricist of the American past. Just sit back, go to sleep, and watch the once subversively free art form ossify for want of criticism which demands its best...