Word: odorants
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...high rise, where a month ago hallways reeked of urine, now only carries traces of the odor. Holes in the apartment doors are gone, and the entry doors have been repainted an anomalous bright green. Mailboxes, ripped clean from the walls in the tower by thieves looking for checks, have yet to be replaced...
...groups are in residence, flocks of pubescent groupies fling themselves against the smudged glass doors, seeking a way to infiltrate the building. Says Security Chief Wells: "We have to be on constant alert for them, moving all the time, sometimes tracking them by smell, since they all have the odor of burning rope...
...purifies most of the U.S. water supply, but a gas called ozone -a form of oxygen with three (rather than the more common two) atoms in its molecular structure. Ozone is formed when ordinary gaseous oxygen is exposed to electrical discharges or ultraviolet radiation; it has a characteristic acrid odor noticeable after electrical storms and in the vicinity of ultraviolet lamps. In large concentrations, it is dangerous to breathe because it oxidizes, or burns, healthy tissue. Bubbled through water, it attacks and oxidizes polio and other harmful viruses, and completely eliminates foul smells and bad-tasting pollutants. When its extra...
...SHOWS me the closet, with its peeling plaster and decayed odor. Inside is one dress, two pastel sweaters, and a blanket. She closes the closet door and confides--"I've just lost about 30 lbs. I didn't lose that much in the top. I just went on a diet and started starvin'. Starvin'. No, really I got ill and that helped me a lot, my appetite with food. I used to weigh 175. Uh, I want to get to between 120 and 125. That's my normal weight. I have low blood pressure and I have to weigh that...
...House, the melancholic hero-obviously speaking for the author-decides that Euripides spent his last years in a cave "because he had observed women closely all his life." Cather was also a prude. We are not told Marian Forrester drinks a little but merely get "the sharp odor of spirits." In My Antonia, the local lecher is obliquely indicated by the comment that he set a former housemaid up "in the business for which he had trained...