Word: whiffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elevation, Morococha has an average atmospheric pressure (446 mm. of mercury) slightly more than half that at sea level. But its barrel-chested natives, after generations of exposure to perpetual oxygen shortage, have a lung structure and blood pattern especially adapted to extract full value from the last available whiff of oxygen (TIME, Jan. 20). They literally and habitually work like navvies with nary a huff or puff, even go to 16,000 ft. to "relax" by playing a murderously fast game of soccer...
...eliminated too. Also absent from the film is Cary's seething energy, but Guinness supplies in its stead a stiff charge of farcical effervescence; and thanks to him. the mixture is never merely sweet. Every now and again the screen even exudes an earthy, salty, gingery, sweaty, whisky whiff of the essential Cary...
This is a lighthearted book about a serious theme-the confusion that a first whiff of education can bring to primitive people. Jean-Marie Medza is a French Cameroons Negro who goes to college 40 miles from his native village, flunks his finals and returns home only to find himself saddled with a task for which college did not prepare him. His cousin's wife has run away to her father's tribe in the backwoods and Jean-Marie has been picked as just the right man to go and fetch her back. Off he bicycles into...
Packer Hall is nested on a ridge part way up South Mountain, and, architecturally, looks very much like a typical British dominion parliament building. Inside, long corridor lounges and spacious well-appointed dining rooms give Packer's basically functional layout a whiff of atmosphere not unlike that of a Parisian hotel built in the grand old manner...
...Governor of New Hampshire, presidential chief of staff and next to Ike the most powerful man in the Administration. Adams, by presidential assignment the guardian of the integrity that Ike had always promised, the man of stern incorruptibility who threw out Government appointees of high rank at the first whiff of scandal, was now himself in deep trouble for having tarnished the armor he had so ceaselessly polished...