Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...replay of the famous 1987 saga of the garbage scow that couldn't find a home -- only worse. This time the carrier is a 61-car train. On board: 5,000 tons of sewage sludge, most of it treated human waste. It is nothing to sniff at. In fact, nobody wants...
...travel, drug-enforcement agencies have beefed up their cloak-and-dagger operations. They have sent out "rovers," undercover agents dressed in anything from blazing Bermuda shorts to sleazy T shirts, to hang around airports. They have also trained friendly-looking dogs, like cairn terriers and cocker spaniels, to sniff out suspects by amiably sitting down beside them. In fact, it was a narcotics- sniffing dog that helped clip Andrew Sokolow's wings after he was detained - in Honolulu. The canine cop, Donker, found the drug courier's stash hidden in his trendy Louis Vuitton travel...
...Drug-sniffing dogs for the private sector," he says, beaming. "Parents could rent 'em to sniff out their kids' rooms to see if they're hiding drugs. Big businesses could use them to sniff out the desks of employees they suspect are using drugs. That would avoid all those constitutional questions about urine testing and lie detector tests." Jeff's eyes open wide and unblinking behind his thick-lensed glasses. "Whaddaya think...
...greater danger, however, is the possibility that a wary and grudging attitude could cause the U.S. to miss out on a historic turning point in world affairs. Those who sniff at Gorbachev's recent moves were proposing last year that many of these same steps -- on emigration, troop configurations, individual rights, loosening controls in Eastern Europe -- be used as litmus tests of Soviet intentions. With every Gorbachev move, the evidence mounts that he is seeking not just a breathing space but a fundamental change in the Soviet system...
...atomized by giving too much importance to the peculiarities of others. Minor personal characteristics may be quite important aesthetically--you couldn't have a description without the details--but surely they overstep their purpose when they become a basis for moral judgement. Instead of looking at people, we often sniff out characteristics, representatives of certain stereotypes (usually bad ones...