Word: odorants
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...first apartment on the Lower East Side, in the neighborhood where they grew up. He is glumly preoccupied with getting and spending, she with gaminish stratagems designed to break through his fagade of indifference. None of these are as amusing as she (or Gardner) thinks they are. A powerful odor of neuroticism - anything but funny - emanates from both parties...
...approached, the town became an open-air monastery. Lamas in robes of red and ocher rubbed shoulders with laymen, zealously spinning the prayer wheels that would magnify a hundredfold the effect of incantations written upon them. The Dalai Lama, followed by flocks of devotees, visited monasteries rancid with the odor of butter-oil lamps. Then, leaving the bustling tent township erected for the occasion, he retired with his chosen monks to a small pagoda on the banks of the Indus River to devote six days to prayer and penance...
Once chosen, the panel will go into action any time the agency receives ten complaints about a particular odor within 90 days. If the apparent polluter happens to be an industrial concern, for example, investigators will go to the olfactory−as it were−and collect air directly from the smokestack. Each of the three panelists will then be asked to sniff 20 samples−ten from the smokestack and ten consisting of fresh air. If two of the three noses correctly identify eight of both the smoke and fresh air samples−in other words, if the odor...
What is objectionable? Agricultural and barnyard smells, as well as restaurant odors, have been exempted from regulation. So have the smells of disinfectants from hospitals and odors from single-family dwellings. Nonetheless, says Story, "it's the toughest odor control anywhere." It may just make scents...
...Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, and others; and how splendid that the honor was accorded him in a city (London) which had first repelled him as a raw, Hogarthian place, and more precisely, in a cathedral (Westminster Abbey) from which he had once fled because the crowds emitted an odor that "was not that of incense," and that he eventually came to love both places; and how quite exquisitely appropriate that last week, finally, he was recognized with a marble plaque placed in the floor of Poets' Corner, near where Eliot and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are also memorialized, and reading...