Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marseille refine crude morphine into heroin, which is then smuggled into the U.S. The U.S., for example, has given Mexico $1,000,000 for the purchase of five helicopters, three light aircraft and other equipment to be used specifically to detect and catch violators. Dogs have been trained to sniff out marijuana. Since last October, the Mexican army has sought out and destroyed a total of 1,450 acres of poppy fields, and Mexican police have arrested 539 persons on drug-trafficking charges...
...Beirut's busy international airport, security measures include dogs trained to sniff hashish and electronic devices designed to detect metallic objects. One morning last week the electronic eyes were not working as well as the canine noses, and six young Arab passengers, all students at American University of Beirut, sauntered on to Olympic Airways' Athens-bound Flight 255 toting five pistols, two hand grenades and a submachine...
Like many street Christians, Hoyt came to his vocation by a circuitous route. Born a Roman Catholic, he was once an altar boy. His well-to-do parents were divorced when he was young, and he and a brother were sent to separate boys' homes. He began to sniff glue, drink wine, steal cars. He spent six years in a California reformatory, two more in jail for smuggling narcotics. Paroled at 20, he drifted to the flowering world of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, where he became a member of the Hare Krishna cult and custodian...
...away about a year," he said. "But when the races turned back to the fairgrounds in New Orleans, I took a ride out just to see 'em. The first sniff of a stable and I was back again, 24 hours a day." He took a deep breath of air and exhaled slowly. "The smell of manure is great to me. It's like fresh air; that's how used...
...Beirut International Airport, customs men have trained dogs to sniff out drugs hidden in luggage. In Tashkent, a woman Soviet agent with a superb olfactory sense sniffed hash carried by three young Americans, who were flying via Aeroflot from Afghanistan to Finland. Two are still serving time in the infamous Potma labor camp southeast of Moscow...