Word: stinks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enter Dr. Johnson. It is the talent of a great interviewer, but it functioned only feebly in Boswell's interviews with his father, who threatened continually to disinherit his feckless son. "Better to snuff out a candle," he snarled, "than leave it to stink in a socket." In London later that year, the talent was further tried by a man who hated Scots and sycophants and saw both in Boswell. "Mr. Johnson," Boswell gasped as he sat gaping at the Grand Cham of English letters, "I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it." Fixing Boswell with...
...morning." Roseboro's own roommate, Dodger Shortstop Maury Wills, insists that Juan Marichal is "a nice guy-and a great individual." He is that all right. He is the grinning practical joker who passes around a perfume vial labeled "Apple Blossom," which actually is a stink bomb. He is the "Dominican Dandy" who dresses all in blue and cream. He is the mild hypochondriac who changes doctors with the wind and claims that he can't sleep properly in San Francisco because of "something in the air." He is the grand master of his trade...
...illegal trawler fleets that were robbing the local fishermen of their livelihood. He played the organ in church and criticized the parish priest for his refusal to allow barefoot children to attend Mass. He begged money for food for the starving. He tried to do something about the ancient stink of the picturesque airless houses and to stop children playing in the open sewers. He discovered that when appeals to charity failed, he could exploit a flair for dramatizing unpleasant statistics and shame Rome itself into granting public funds for public relief. When all else failed, he fasted...
...accusations into attacks on the 13 years of Tory rule that preceded Wilson's brief 17 months in office. He was still coolly confident of victory as he made his way by train around the hustings. At one Labor rally, he was hit in the face by a stink bomb thrown by a 14-year-old boy. The fluid splashed into Wilson's right eye, and he retreated from the platform for emergency medical treatment. After two days the inflammation subsided, but the incident pointed up the campaign's most unlovely aspect: a surge of violent heckling...
...antiSemitism, anything. They treat the audience to a series of small, distasteful shocks, but as black comedy gives way to bald effrontery, even the shock wears off The Loved One seems as crude and pointless as a schoolboy's Halloween prank like tipping over tombstones or throwing a stink bomb into the parsonage...