Word: whiffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Inauguration: "They'll be there just as sure as a cat's got climbing gear." Added Shelby Smith, a retired building contractor in Helen, Ga.: "It's been a long dry spell for us, and we feel a little like farmers when they get that first whiff of needed rain...
Irion uncorked the first whiff of grape shot when he opened the game with a three-point play. A tip-in by CCNY's blue chip guard Rich Silvera gave the New Yorkers an 8-7 lead until Jonas Honick pulled the trigger on a straightaway jumper to ease the Crimson into the lead...
...other hand, Newman, instinctively a popularizer, does not want to risk losing his audience. (Nothing clears the room faster than a whiff of intellectual substance.) Already, he notes, he is viewed in some quarters as "cranky and pedantic." Since his cause is crucial, and the need for converts great, perhaps he is right to be content with taking a different risk: that A Civil Tongue, as it follows Strictly Speaking on the bestseller lists, will be found merely entertaining by the people it ought to Sting. Christopher Porterfield
...Ford's problems, Republicans in Washington were particularly depressed over the whiff of possible scandal in his handling of campaign finances as a Congressman. Earlier this year, acting on the orders of Special Prosecutor Ruff, teams of FBI agents had combed through Ford's campaign financial records in Grand Rapids from 1964 through the present time, and reportedly found nothing. But last week, an informer in Washington slipped a confidential and highly sensitive document to two pairs of investigative reporters: the Wall...
...alike. Earthy in speech and impatient in manner (the Japanese, he once said, "must learn the art of coming to the point as fast as possible"), he built up a cando, populist image. Although he was popular and admired, Kaku-san was never able to free himself of the whiff of financial scandal. Typical was the Shinano-Gawa riverbed case of 1964. A nameless company bought an abandoned tract of dry land in the Shinano River, then made a killing later on when the government revealed railroad and highway projects that caused land prices to skyrocket; the company also turned...