Word: smelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undeniable that the Senate's continued inclusion of a clause specifying criminal prosecution in case a student belongs to a subversive organization still leaves a slightly bad smell hanging about the loan program. But the colleges and the Congress have held a position of impossible intransigeance toward each other for too long. The key issue of belief is gone; the substitute is a legitimate request. It is very much to be hoped not only that the House will agree, but also that the colleges will accept the NDEA compromise in cheerful spirit. If anyone is to decide that the substitute...
...enough to gain teen-agers entrance to many nightclubs, the Cafe Bizarre, a Greenwich Village coffeehouse that serves soft drinks, sawdust and beat poets at reasonable prices, aims for "armies and armies of young people," but refuses to label itself a teen-age club "because the phrase has a smell to it." Chicago's Fickle Pickle, a dark, clean rathskeller-type cafe, is a favorite of the 18-21 set, features nightclub-type entertainment for the price of one or two nonalcoholic drinks per person...
...Santo Stefano. The Panama Portrait is a Madison Avenue Heart of Darkness with a shirt ad as hero. Ben Smith is the fella, a handsome Kansan who forsakes the "smell of failure" at home for the big city and a vast company, Seaways Industries. Smith thinks of himself as a thoughtful sort-there are days on end when he wonders if Seaways is really for him. But when his hero, General Manager James F. X. O'Harragh, picks him for an all-or-nothing assignment to corner the rock lobster market on tiny Santo Stefano, all doubt vanishes...
...island of Santo Stefano is the kind of loaded microcosm an experienced reader can smell a mile off. So, it happens, can everyone else. Santo Stefano's main source of wealth is a rich guano deposit that envelops it in an aroma visitors find intolerable but that the natives are used to. "It smells like money to them," Ben muses...
...field with a bearded guerrilla unit wearing tattered civilian clothes. The menu: catfish stew and fried water moccasin. "You keeping clean?" Adams asked one guerrilla. "Yes, sir," was the reply. "We wash our socks and underclothes every day. It doesn't get them clean, but it keeps the smell out." "That's important," said the general with approval. "Always keep the clothes next to your body clean. When you're moving fast, that's what slows you down-rash and chafe...