Word: odorants
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...moon, Sergeant Main made out the ridge he was seeking. Nine Marines fanned quietly out to establish a base of fire. Main, a second sergeant with a submachine-gun and two riflemen circled with infinite caution toward the top, sniffing like animals for the smell of garlic, the telltale odor of the Chinese soldier...
...last six years, Bricker has turned over his $15,000 Senate salary to his law firm and drawn in return a $24,000 annual retainer. A few weeks ago, somebody discovered the firm had received $184,000 in fees from the Pennsylvania Railroad. The deal has an odor because Bricker has voted for the railroad in all matters affecting it, including a vote against the St. Lawrence Seaway, which would make Cleveland a profitable deep-water port. The revelation has allowed Democrats to charge that Bricker votes for his client's interest over his constituents'. It will hurt...
...which advanced a new theory that "the female moths supposedly attract males from seven miles away by means of infra red radiations" and set about to disprove it. "We think we did," Dane said, "for last spring we extracted the chemical that is probably responsible for the attracting odor...
...tons of gas and ash, then lies quiet for five or ten minutes. Between explosions, Dr. Dietz from his airplane took a deep look into the crater. He estimated that the temperature of the erupting throat is about 2,000° F. He also noticed the rotten-eggs odor of hydrogen sulfide, which volcanologists consider a sign that a volcano is quieting down...
...cannot shake off the large aura of unethicalness that $18,000 has placed above his brow. All the enumerations and all the charges of smear and all the evidence of the catholicity of his practise may prove he is clean in intention, but they do not diminish the unwholesome odor that a privately endowed slush fund always radiates...