Word: odorants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bump -- and blew up the bombers along with their bomb. The blast seems to have occurred either on the ramp or at the bottom of it -- not ordinarily a spot where bombers would park, get out of the van and take an elevator up to the street. A foul odor in the crater could point to the presence of bodies in the wreckage, but it could have other causes as well...
...married commoners were punished by being force-fed pepper until they died. The builders of Egypt's pyramids were paid off in onions. The Roman scholar Pliny was startled by the high retail prices of the Eternal City -- "Have times really changed?" the author asks -- and believed that the odor of garlic would repel scorpions...
...REPUTATION OF EUGENE O'Neill occupies the American stage the way your grandparents' sofa might dominate your living room. The thing is dark, overstuffed, too big and too long. Its style affronts modern taste; it has an odor that lingers somewhere between musty and musk. Yet you're afraid to toss the thing out because you've been told it's a valuable antique. And some people do say they feel comfortable sitting...
City officials said yesterday they found no evidence of raw sewage under the Anderson Bridge, despite comments by rowers that a foul odor emanates from the area...
Members of the crew team also said they were aware of a persistent odor. "There's been a pretty bad stench for as long as I can remember," said Meg G. Brooks, '93, co-captain of the women's team. "Some days are worse than others...