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...nostrils of old Winston Churchill, the whiff of peace was like a tonic. Why not a parley at the summit? He had declared in Washington that he still thought such a meeting might be profitable if the time was right. What better time than amidst the acclaim and relief of an Indo-Chinese peace? He put it to his Cabinet: he could meet Malenkov at Geneva, in the happy aftermath of agreement. Or Berlin, or Stockholm might provide a suitable rendezvous: Churchill was not too keen on going to Moscow, which might look too much like a pilgrimage. Eden objected...
...could have designed such hellish discomfort for his prisoners as those that abounded in the steaming jungles of Guiana, or hired jailers as efficient as the shark-infested seas and fever-ridden swamps that stood guard on all sides of the Cayenne colony. The world got its first full whiff of Devil's Island iniquity in the case of Captive Alfred Dreyfus, who spent four years there before his defender, Emile Zola, wrote J'accuse, and brought him back to freedom...
...schizophrenic subject, they were able to get sharply defined brain waves of his sense of smell, indicating the intensity of the smell when they gave him a whiff of tincture of valerian. To their surprise, they found that whereas most sensory perceptions are transmitted by a frequency-modulation system, the sense of smell appears to work by amplitude modulation. In the oceans of the mind, it seems, there are both hidden waves and different types of current...
...comic-strip world of Li'l Abner the unthinkable is always happening. But few readers ever expected the most unthinkable event of all: the ("gulp") marriage of Li'l Abner to Daisy Mae. Though Abner has been close enough to the altar to whiff the smoke from the cigar of self-made Magistrate Marryin' Sam, Cartoonist Al Capp always stepped in, in time's nick, with a save. Once, at the crucial moment, a gas explosion blasted Abner into a tree out of Daisy Mae's reach. Another time, after Preacher Sam had completed...
...might be divided, the U.S. response could not be. The U.S. had to stand with Britain, for the defense of the Canal and the restoration of order. This fundamental commitment once made, the U.S. could well insist that its British ally must resist a too-easy reliance on the whiff-of-grape philosophy...