Word: whiffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while the whiff of conspiracy emanating from all these Felker connections may be only that, a whiff, the content of [MORE]'s new issue gives off such a stench of conspiracy that you'll forget mere takeover theories. Foremost on the list of subjects is Spiro Agnew, who would still be in prison were it not for plea-bargainers in the Justice Department like Elliot Richardson. Instead, Spiro the Kickbacker is on the bestseller list, with a novel charging, among other rantings and ravings, that a Jewish cabal controls the media and exerts extreme pro-Zionist influence on American foreign...
...hopes to make them "best friends" again after Amy has an affair with her libertine half sister Blanche. A mysterious stranger appears and reappears. Amy begins to act strange, as if she possesses some important secret. Edward begins to spot possible hints of new infidelity everywhere-in a faint whiff of cigarette smoke, a footprint, a random passage from a book...
...charts, they pad quietly down the halls in dark suits, queue up at the big coffee urn near the door and settle in around the long table by 8:30 a.m. "All right, gentlemen, let's start," shouts Treasury Secretary William Simon, the chairman, who still has a whiff of the Wall Street buccaneer about him. For the next 15 or 30 minutes they take the economic pulse all the way from the condition of the winter-wheat crop (better than expected) to the state of mind of Teamster Top Dog Frank Fitzsimmons (angry over NBC's scathing...
Callaway's political trouble is a result of the Ford Administration's keen -and fully warranted-post-Watergate sensitivity to voter intolerance of even the whiff of scandal. The worst that had been alleged about Callaway was that in a variety of ways he had misused his muscle as a Government bigwig to promote and enlarge the $10 million Crested Butte complex that he and his brother-in-law own. But that was enough...
...sort of journalism at TIME is not greatly subject to seasonal cycles, but there are some predictable moments every year. With the first whiff of winter, editors-who are not above escapism-start thinking of stories about cruises or resorts. With the first anticipation of winter's end, they begin to consider spring fashions. This year we decided that the success of the American look-and the remarkably attractive and varied new designs by leading American fashion makers-deserved cover story treatment...