Word: odore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thirds of the carafes examined were "grossly unhygienic"-meaning that in many there were the partly decomposed bodies of insects, or "islands" of algae and fungi. Often, the walls were slimy. Most had a stale odor, and "a few were literally foul." When the bacteriologists went to work, they found that in 22% of the carafes the water contained colon bacilli, and no fewer than 69% held Staphylococcus aureus-including at least one of the deadly, penicillin-resistant strains that have caused wholesale epidemics and killed babies in some hospital nurseries (TIME, March...
...keep up his reputation as a man of independence, Yugoslavia's President Tito must take a poke from time to time at his old pals in the Soviet bloc. These attacks do not change things in the East, where Tito is in bad odor; but they do land him on front pages in the West, where he is considered only half safe. And they enhance his prestige among the neutralists as a Very Important Person who is still eagerly wooed by both East and West...
Last week, thanks to their Big Sisters, Smiths' children were persuaded to bundle into buses and ride off to the nearby town of High Wycombe. There the public hall was gaily decorated, pungent with the odor of cakes and candy, loud with a piano thumping out nursery rhymes and rock 'n' roll. Father Christmas himself arrived with a bag of toys. A year ago the regular Smiths staff might not have been able to get their patients into the hall at all. This year everybody-the shiny-eyed Big Sisters included-enjoyed a wonderful holiday party...
...began to push open the door but stopped at a musty odor that came from the room. I put my face up to the edge of the door and listened...
...toit, terre, travail" (roof, land, work): "We help them, but only halfway, the other half coming from them." He thought it essential for women to find pride in keeping a clean house with curtains at the windows, and men in earning their own wages, before the "weight of the odor and the noise" of the D.P. camps would fall away, and settlers would be capable again of love and hope...