Word: whiff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your wisdom, You been so doggone good to us. The Chinee don't have chili, ever. The Frenchmens is left out. The Rooshians don't know no more about chili than a hog does about a sidesaddle. Even the Meskins don't get a good whiff of it unless they stay around here. Chili eaters is some of Your chosen people...
...whiff of the stuff can turn contemporary chili aficionados as lyrical as the 19th century chuckwagon cook. To the true believer, a sizzling chile con carne is manna from Montezuma, a concoction of beef, green peppers, herbs and other combustibles with an aroma, as the International Chili Society puts it, that "should generate rapture akin to a lover's kiss." As hot as the dish are the arguments that simmer around its preparation. Should a true chili include beans? Tomatoes? Corn meal? Onions? Is beef the best came? How many hours -or days-should it be cooked...
...Marvin Kalb, Rod MacLeish and other pundits were there, stoically abandoning the Georgetown dinner table and families for duty and the whiff of uncoiling power. For two crisis days, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had been in the Midwest, marinating in the heartland legend of Harry Truman. No better preparation for the moment of action. He had visited Bess Truman in the old family home in Independence, Mo., and heard a Truman neighbor shout: "Give 'em hell, Henry!" On the big crisis night, Kissinger, back in his Washington office, paced, ordering, listening, waiting. He flashed the V sign...
Ignoring the incredible flabbiness and indefiniteness of Schlesinger's language--the relationship of "word" and "reality," the "attack on reason," the "conviction of historical responsibility"--we get a whiff of the type of democracy he endorses:the cult of the intellectual, a noblesse not of the robe or the sword but of the word protecting the nation from the dragon of unreason that threatens political discourse. "Let intellectuals never forget that all they that take the word shall perish with the word," Schlesigner eloquently tells us, and as for the rest of society, well, let them eat paragraphs...
Those 307 battle streamers that commemorated military engagements from Ticonderoga to Viet Nam have been moved from behind the presidential chair to the Cabinet Room. Ford's own war ribbons and medals (he has ten battle stars) are in a modest case on the shelf. There is a whiff of the West about the place, just as there is about Ford. In the hall is a painting of Old Faithful done by Albert Bierstadt about the time that Yellowstone became a national park; Ford once worked there. And there is a magnificent view of a setting sun on snowcapped...