Word: odorants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hotel, auctioneer Jacques Tajan brought the gavel down on a supposed bid of $6.4 million. After the sale, however, Tajan admitted he had merely pretended to have a buyer; in fact, not a single real offer was made. Why no takers? As Tajan put it, the painting has "an odor of sulfur" about it. Indeed, the 25-in. by 31-in. canvas has a long, troubled history. Supposedly painted by the penniless artist just days before his suicide on July 27, 1890, the work was estimated at $40 million in the late 1980s. But in 1989 the French government declared...
...those used in the 1995 attacks. The device was planted in the fourth train car, which was severely burned and had its doors blown off by the force of the explosion. A witness told France Info she heard a loud boom and smelled something like gunsmoke, similar to an odor at a firing range. Dozens of emergency officials rushed to the station, including an anti-terrorist squad and riot police...
Here's one thing at least that Republicans have in common with Democrats. Every few years they give off the odor of desperation. Both parties rest on such unstable coalitions that after every big election the losing side goes into a mortal funk, wondering whether its crucial constituencies are cutting loose once and for all. One year after George Bush was proclaimed unbeatable, the Republicans were sifting through the wreckage of their loss to Bill Clinton. Two years after that, the Democrats lost Congress so badly they were asking if the numbers would ever add up their way again...
...undergraduate class held in the University Museum lecture hall was evacuated yesterday afternoon when police responded to a call reporting a "suspicious odor" coming from a nearby chemistry laboratory...
...There are students at Harvard who do not enjoy suffocating body odor...