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Word: sniff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before it becomes standard equipment, however, it will have to become more discriminating. It is so sensitive that even when a sober companion shifts a drunken driver to the back seat, it refuses to allow the motor to start; it can still sniff the drunk's breath. Still more embarrassing was the Sniffer's recent refusal to allow a sober woman to drive. The mechanism found her perfume intoxicating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Strict Sensor | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...than buy blue and white scarves (the official Yale Scarf, incidentally, is manufactured in Harvard Square), carve their initials into the tables down at Mory's, import girls for football weekends. Harvard was more worldly than that, initiating academic, political and social trends which Yale could only sniff at or copy (or both...

Author: By (this Article and Michael E. Kinsley, S | Title: The Greening of Yale | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

...Secrets. To reverse the trend, three Italian scientists invited to the conference proposed implantation by artificial inoculation, sterilizing the soil before seedlings are introduced, and the use of trained dogs instead of the pigs that the French traditionally employ to sniff out the ripened tubers. Said one expert: "It only takes about three weeks to train no matter what kind of dog, and a dog is a lot easier to move around with. Getting a 450-lb. pig in and out of a Deux Chevaux is an unnecessary bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: No Truffling Matter | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

...television console, and bronze-backed display cases containing the Johnson daughters' wedding dresses. Lady Bird Johnson, who chose the library site, and has been frequently seen directing its construction over the past five years, is behind some of the more personal touches. Says she: "Visitors want to sniff the presidency, to see firsthand the real belongings that were part of the center of power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The L.B.J. Library | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

...different animals and toys in a designated room in the house. Three students crawled in a line like train cars while two bobbed their shoulders playing a cat and leopard. To shouts of "We couldn't tell they were in a kitchen" the animals began to pretend to sniff for food in a refrigerator and a shelf above their heads. A second group pantomimed a skunk stamping his foot, and a horse, hyena, duck, pig, and monkey in a farmyard. Three boys played electric football characters who continually ran into walls...

Author: By Gilbert B. Kaplan, | Title: Verbal Thinking: How Can I Tell You? | 3/6/1971 | See Source »

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