Word: whiffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tear-gas squad rushed to the Plaza, but was warned that one whiff might kill scores of the diseased mob. A messenger ran to fetch Minister of the Interior Miguel Culaciati, who was attending a funeral. At noon Minister Culaciati received an exhausted, coughing delegation, promised to look into the matter of the vaccine...
...first whiff of Brazil while on vacation from the Woolworth store he managed in Atlantic City. Back in the States, he continued to dream of Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay. He also had another reverie : a chain of low-price stores in Brazil. Woolworth, he knew, would never send him there; the chain had investigated South America as a market, rejected it. Jim threw up his 15-year job, arrived in Rio on Washington's birthday, 1929, with two partners...
...partial protection, for they attack men's bodies, produce ghastly burns. (Lewisite may also cause death from arsenic poisoning.) Helpers of the lethal gases are the sneeze, tear and vomiting gases. Used as harassing agents, they make men work in masks over long periods. Men who get a whiff of the harassing gases before they get on their masks, have to take them off, are then wide open to the killers that may follow...
...whiff, they said, makes soldiers stagger and fall, their muscular coordination anesthetized as by "twilight sleep." Fuhrer Hitler last weekend personally handed the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross to Lieut. Witzig and seven other flying officers for their "incomparable daring" in taking Eben Emael and certain bridges over the Albert Canal. He promoted Lieut. Witzig to captain. To the inventors of the new Angriffsmittel went greater tribute: real alarm among the Allies lest this unknown new weapon prove a key to unlock the Maginot Line...
Joan Fontaine's performance as the young Mrs. Winter provides a wholesome whiff of sincerity in an atmosphere laden with sleazy pluto-romanticism. The other characters--including grave, moustached Mr. Oliveir--are the stereotyped masks which haunt every unsuccessful attempt at fiction. Readers of Miss Dumaurier's novel will notice to their amusement that under Mr. Hays' jurisdiction a husband does not shoot his wife, and that villains do not get away with their crimes as if there were neither justice nor morals in Hollywood...