Word: whiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor, of course, does not share the assumption; a man who has had the whiff of the Presidency of the United States in his nostrils will stumble over all manner of things in pursuit of the vanishing scent. But a cold, hard look at recent polls and the 1964 and 1965 election results should convince the most dispassionate observer that Rockefeller has won his last election...
Idle optimism, of course, doesn't change the score, but let's be idly optimistic. These sophomores are bound to improve. And a guy like Dick Howe, who has just snatched a whiff of Harvard's winning spirit, must be (in the words of the Old Poet) an "unknown quantity...
...turned out, what the Senators needed was not a boost from Beelzebub but a whiff of good clean Midwestern air. Before the start of the 1961 season, they moved to the St. Paul-Minneapolis area and changed their name to the Twins. In four seasons, they have twice finished in the first division, a feat they had accomplished only 20 times in 60 years in Washington. And never have they been hotter than now. They have won nine of their last twelve games, including three out of four with those damn and now doomed Yankees, and at week...
...Sabbath toys" or whirligigs. To entertain the children when boisterous play was banned, soldiers, firemen, Indians and, one suspects, parodies of the neighbors, were carved in wood with paddles for arms, painted and propped on the front porch or fence posts to whirl and jiggle at the slightest whiff of a breeze. They were often intricately animated. One, called Farm Industry, made about 1880, shows a long-skirted woman churning butter while her farmer husband, in the doorway of a barn, sharpens his tools on a grindstone. It doubled as a weather vane, churning and sharpening away furiously when...
Battle statistics in South Viet Nam's war against the elusive Communist Viet Cong are often as illusory as the enemy-but there is always a whiff of truth in numbers. Last week it was a faint whiff of success for Saigon's government, compounded of cordite and napalm, corpses and canal water...