Word: odore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left with her title of Foreign Minister, and was even allowed to sit on the ministers' bench one day last week while the National Assembly awarded the premiership of Red Rumania to her archrival, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.* But, no doubt about it, she was in bad odor...
...grave problems of our world, at least one of them, in an effort to ennoble the discussion, will begin talking of the Good, the True . . . After having heard the term 'freedom of thought' mentioned for the 54th time, a stale smell gradually invades the room, an odor which reminds me of fried fish. Discussions about Freedom are bound to remain sterile, unless we take this word down from its high pedestal and place it on a more humble, concrete basis . . . the freedom to leave one's country, the freedom to listen to any radio program one chooses...
Last week Smith Grant was winding up his busiest season since the war at Glenlivet Distillery, which stands on a brae overlooking a fertile Banffshire valley in the heart of the Highlands. Black peat smoke belched from the distillery's tall chimney, and the pungent odor of fermenting barley drifted from its odd-shaped kiln towers. Glenlivet's 50 workers, completing their biggest distilling season in seven years, processed the last batches of whisky before the annual summer shutdown. In the three summer months, the tumbling mountain springs which rise 1,200 feet above the glen...
Last spring, when the odor of influence-peddling and political loans in the RFC finally penetrated Truman's nostrils, he called Battler Symington in as the cleanup man. Symington fired employees who had become entangled in the influence web, and opened loan files to public scrutiny. When he decided that the world's tin producers were gouging the U.S., he slashed the price the RFC would pay for tin. This brought cries of anguish from Bolivia, and got Symington into an argument with the State Department. Now that Symington is leaving, the Bolivians hope to win the argument...
Douglas, who will deliver the third and final Godkin lecture tonight, said that "one has not had to be psychic to smell the odor of evil which has pervaded Washington hotel lobbies during the last six years." He then listed practices which would be condemned under what he called "a new code of ethical propriety...