Word: whiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's image has been tarnished not only by the whiff of scandal -to this day he has refused to respond to accusations that he received diamonds from former Central African Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa-but by the deterioration of the aura of technocratic competence that long marked his management of economic and foreign affairs. Unemployment has reached a new record of 1.6 million (6.9%), inflation is galloping along at an intractable 13.6%, and growth is virtually...
...Soviets in a state of intense anxiety -and for good reason. Solidarity overnight became a third major power center in Poland, along with the party and the Roman Catholic Church. More than that, the union's audacious bargaining and uninhibited criticism of authorities have given Poles a whiff of pluralistic freedom. Even the long-somnolent Sejm (Parliament) has shown signs of life. Once content to endorse party directives meekly, deputies these days frequently abstain or cast negative votes-though not often enough to overturn the official line...
...delight, both the party's moderates and its right-wingers. But the struggle to find the right mix - and men who could accept the jobs - was the first patch of trouble that the Californian has encountered since his surge to win the election. Ronald Reagan got a whiff last week of what life in Washington will be like...
...Agrarians were to farming what pastoral poetry is to real sheep, and Agrarianism was simply the flag under which they marched against the forces of modernity. In 1930, as they sniffed the first whiff of smog at their writing desks in a university founded on the wealth of a New York railroad baron, the essayists of I'll Take My Stand shared, as Warren put it, a "dire suspicion" "that a great commonwealth has gone wrong." The enemy was industrialism, which they characterized as "an evil dispensation" and "a pizen snake." The issue was an intensely personal matter, almost...
Capote has a stomach for blood. One whiff of murderous intrigue and he heads for the scene of the crime. He meets up with a state investigator named Jake Pepper in town somewhere in "a small, western state" where the murderer has already claimed seven victims...