Jacques Rapoport led the search for something "that was sweet rather than violent, that lingered for two weeks, and that suggested a feeling of cleanliness and well-being rather than of filthiness being covered up." What was Rapoport looking for?

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Thursday's question (No. 160)--"Put the Dis Back in Description":

"Smelly, Lethargic, Incoherent." Ads in many papers caution that someone like this is probably ... what?

"Male."--Evan Cornog

"Dead."--Paul Tullis (Ellen Macleay had a similar answer, with Tic-Tacs.)

"Electable."--Brooke Saucier (similarly, Winter Miller)

"Dying to meet you!"--Ananda Gupta

"Brian Dennehy in Death of a Salesman."--Chris Kelly

"A newborn baby. Mine's a full week old, and he's still acting like a drunk."--Eric Fredericksen