Word: whiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...changes. Adamec added, "The country can be ruled only on condition that its people feel confident about the government." It was a direct contradiction of Jakes' doctrine that economic opiates -- adequate housing, food and clothing -- would numb the populace to the desire for political liberalization. So strong was the whiff of reform in Prague last week that hard-line officials went out of their way to deny Western reports that they had received telexes from Moscow urging democratization...
...shrinkage of available stock has helped increase the value of all shares, since equities are becoming a little bit like land, which Will Rogers once said was his favorite investment "because they ain't making it anymore." But at current stock prices, a whiff of recession or a flare-up of inflation and interest rates could make stocks about as popular as beachfront property in hurricane season...
NATION: A whiff of fresh...
...rare trip aboard his father's corvette, that sailing terms derived from Viking days (coxswain, starboard) still have a defining role in modern navies. MacNeil's memories of Nova Scotia have what D.H. Lawrence called a "spirit of place." In the book's best pages, one can almost whiff the salty tang of fog descending on proud, poky Halifax as winter comes...
Last week Bush also got a whiff of trouble in what he promised would be a squeaky clean Administration. It came from none other than his chief ethics officer, C. Boyden Gray, the man responsible for vetting the nomination of John Tower and advising others in the Administration that they must give up outside income and jobs: Secretary of State James Baker, for one, would have to resolve the potential conflict posed by his holdings in Chemical New York Corp., a bank that holds a significant amount of Third World debt...