Word: whiff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfect Gaullist? Not quite. For one thing, Chaban advocates widespread reform ("the new society," he calls it), ranging from governmental decentralization to increased social security benefits - policies that are anathema to some Gaullist fundamentalists who want to hold down government spending. Moreover, his reputation is still clouded by a whiff of scandal: in July 1972, Pompidou ousted him as Premier after it became known that he had taken advantage of legal loopholes and paid no income taxes on his $30,000 salary in the years from...
...fascination to researchers is the persistence of memory, the ability not only to store but also to recall information and experiences. In Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel released a flood of memories by tasting a tea-soaked petite Madeleine. Others have found that a memory-jogging whiff of perfume, a word, a few notes of music can conjure up similar-and often realistic-recollections of events they experienced many years earlier. A landmark discovery was made by the great Canadian neurosurgeon, Wilder Penfield, when he found that he could stimulate memories electrically. Probing a patient...
...over Israel comes from a 61 -year-old, mild-mannered Presbyterian who represents the state of Washington, where Jews constitute a mere .44% of the population. On the national scene, the Jewish vote of course is more important, and Jackson has presidential aspirations. There would be more than a whiff of opportunism to his posture if it were not perfectly consistent with the views he has expressed in his 21 years in the Senate. He is an unrepentant cold warrior who still refers to "Reds" and "Commies" in his private conversation. Fearing that the Soviet Union means to dupe...
...types. Glober is a sixtyish, playboy film producer, a self-made man up from Jewish-immigrant slums, who takes a snippet of pubic hair from every woman he seduces. Gwinnett is a withdrawn, thirtyish academic, a descendant of Button Gwinnett, the first signer of the Constitution, who has a whiff of necrophilia in his makeup. Both are drawn to Pamela partly because of her infamous liaison (in Books Do Furnish a Room) with the late writer X. (for nothing, not for Xavier) Trapnel, the possible source of a film for Glober, a biography for Gwinnett...
...asked John Ehrlichman, then White House counsel, to issue an 87-page pamphlet titled A Reference Booklet on Conflict of Interest. The pamphlet advised all Cabinet members to liquidate their investments and put the proceeds into blind trusts or diversified mutual funds. "We don't want any whiff of questions," said Ehrlichman. "No member of the Cabinet is going to know what he owns...