Word: smells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although India's constitution guarantees religious freedom, the political boss of Madhya Pradesh, 78-year-old Ravishanker Shukla, is crusading against the Christians. First he appointed a committee of five Hindus to smell out examples of Christian subversion and of conversion by force or fraud. The committee began combing the state for testimony about Christian "spying," Christian threats, mission "dens of immorality...
...remarkable discovery is that, by the standards of today, Fanny was in some ways a better writer than her husband. She could not evoke a mood; Stevenson was one of the great mood-evokers. Neither could she give one the sight, smell and taste of an island dawn, a rainy day in Edinburgh, or a starlight night aboard ship. But she had directness, forceful earthiness and an eye for the ridiculous...
...Smell of '35. Recently the U.S. Chamber of Commerce held a meeting with Japanese tax officials, hoping to work out a compromise. But the businessmen got only a vague promise that Finance Minister Ichimada would "study the situation." Most think that Ichimada will use the new tax rules to weed out the U.S. business community in Japan by applying them leniently or harshly depending on the individual businessman...
There are hundreds of unofficial delegates who came to watch and listen: far-sighted industrialists who see an enormous business potential and want to get in on the ground floor, financiers who smell big money, 500 journalists, swarms of plain tourists. They packed Geneva to the alleys, forced even some official delegates to live outside the city (e.g., some U.S. delegates are sleeping 20 miles away across the Swiss border in France). There are Indians and Czechs. Japanese and Hollanders, Pakistani and Lichtensteiners. The Russians arrived in force with 30 chainsmoking technicians to set up their exhibits and 150 other...
Marion appreciates the talents of her lawyers, whose guidance has helped her earn an estimated annual net income of $400,000 a year from real estate. But they also respect her business instincts. Says Bautzer: "She has a good sense of smell about a piece of land...