Word: whiff
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Then economic reality set in, accompanied by a strong whiff of prejudice pervading the American atmosphere. Mobs of predominantly Irish laborers charged that blacks were perpetual strike breakers who threatened to snatch up semi-skilled and skilled positions. In order to ensure themselves employment as artisans and craftsmen, the Irish organized boycotts of any firm that hired or trained blacks, thereby effectively excluding them from the trade sector and relegating them, ever downward, to more menial jobs. What prosperity New England blacks achieved between 1790 and 1830 was lost to Irish hostility, and the trend towards assimilation reversed...
...much coaching from Cochran to believe that Simpson may have been a victim of the Los Angeles Police Department; all they had to do was replay in their minds the videotape of the savage beating administered four years earlier to an unemployed black construction worker named Rodney King. One whiff of the foul odor of institutional racism--and retired detective Mark Fuhrman, a key prosecution witness, stank to high heaven--and a case that many had thought unshakable became unmakable...
There was always a whiff of faded romance in CBS's corporate culture--this is, after all, the network once known as the Tiffany of broadcasting. But nostalgia for the golden era of CBS has lately been supplemented by a sense that the network has been irreparably tarnished. Of all the bad days that Black Rock has endured (and is there another company whose internal soap operas are more frequently played out for the public?), these are undoubtedly the worst. In prime time, CBS's ratings have suffered an almost total collapse: its Nielsen average so far this fall...
...good obituary is always hard to write. Celebrating well-lived lives, marking the passage of exemplary men and women--this is a journalistic task with a whiff of the sacred about it. At TIME it is made even harder by the extreme concision of our Milestones section, where newly admitted angels (and devils) must dance on the head of a pin--100 words or less. That's why we're fortunate to have Michael Quinn, who specializes in animating those angels with a few deft strokes...
...caucuses, the Vice President's troops contrived a desperation strategy to provoke Dole to anger. "Make him blow, revive his 'hatchet man' image, make him seem too meanspirited to be President," recalls a top Bush aide who is now advising Dole. "That was the goal, and it worked." Every whiff of scandal, every scurrilous charge, every distortion of the Senator's record was lobbed at Dole with fury. The cumulative effect was decisive. After Bush won the New Hampshire primary, Dole angrily told Bush to "stop lying about my record" and was instantly toast...