Word: whiff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things had helped the American survive its colicky infancy. When Stars and Stripes suspended in the Mediterranean, thousands of G.I.s switched to the civilian daily. And last summer tobacco heiress Doris Duke, who got a whiff of printers' ink in Italy as a part-time I.N.S. correspondent, bought a minority block of stock...
...some of these little stink bombs which Senator Saltonstall smelled. Some other equally respectable "sponsors" of the Council caught the whiff and withdrew: Harold Ickes, executive chairman of the Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences and professions; Judge Learned Hand of the Circuit Court of Appeals; Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin of Manhattan; William L. Batt, wartime vice chairman of WPB; Kansas Republican Senator Arthur Capper...
...road. "Fascists, fascists, fascists," the squatters yelled. The horses, six abreast, ploughed through the crowd up to the squat downs. Defeated, inflamed and humiliated, they scrambled backwards. One or two aimed blows at the horses' heads. Some tried pushing cigarets into horseflesh. For a moment there was a whiff of burnt hair. The horses did not flinch. The bus slowly ground its way through, followed by lesser vehicles. A man sat down again in the road, yelling: "Come on, you yellow-livered bastards, sit down!" But no one joined...
...envy you, brother," said the officer, taking a last, long whiff, "I envy you. In vino, veritas...
...which he heads. Alden Harry Waitt joined CWS when it was organized in 1918, has stayed with it ever since, taking time out to earn an aviator's wings and qualify as a tank driver. A training accident made Waitt so allergic to tear gas that the slightest whiff of it puts him on the sick list...