Word: odore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Odor of Courage. What "they," i.e., two big black bulls, do to Pacote and what he does with them is the climax but not the core of Barnaby Conrad's Matador, a novel about bullfighting fine enough to share the shelf with Tom Lea's The Brave Bulls (TIME, April 25, 1949). Like Ernest Hemingway, whose hard-packed style accents every sentence in Matador, Novelist Conrad is steeped in the classic ritual of the corrida. (In 1945, at 23, he shared an afternoon's billing in the Seville ring with his tutor, famed Juan Belmonte...
...example, is supposed to be the finest of her kind in the world. She is supposed to be the quintessence of feminine charm. What do advertisers say about her on the radio, on television? I shall put it as gently as I can. She suffers from dandruff, from body odor, from halitosis. I could...