Word: odore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well be doused with something or other, preferably Mum, this sort of thing nevertheless will deeply alarm all right-thinking (and right-smelling) readers. The precedent raises dreadful possibilities: a whiff of chloroform for Not As a Stranger, essence of unwashed T-shirt for On the Road and the odor of sanctity for The Power of Positive Thinking...
...flattering of all is the portrait Cozzens draws of Marjorie Penrose's proselytizing Roman Catholic friend, Mrs. Pratt. Mrs. Pratt has a sweet tooth for vicarious sins, and she loves the gooey drippings of intimate confidences from flesh-bedeviled souls like Marjorie. About her person she dabs the odor of sanctity as if it were the latest Parisian perfume. But as she prattles of sin and piety in the quiet of Arthur Winner's garden, her innuendoes loose the first of the novel's rockslides of revelation. On the very day of his first wife...
Tunisia's supplies of anti-locust insecticide exhausted,-Premier Habib Bourguiba called on the U.S. for help. Next day the first of twelve U.S. Globemasters and Flying Boxcars from France flew in with chemicals and spraying equipment picked up in Morocco. As the pungent odor of Hexachlorocyclohexane spread across the land, the invasion was brought partially under control, but an estimated 70% of Tunisia's $8,500,000 date crop had disappeared. For the Tunisians, the locust scourge was one more portent that nothing will be right in North Africa until the Algerian war is over...
...color of earth, and had a texture not unlike a truffle, apart from one raw reddish gash in it. It gave off an odor as of clay newly dug; also a pungent whiff of onion and of oil of geranium...They stood frozen before this object that drew and yet repelled them, as if a uniform reptillian mass should suddenly uncoil before their eyes and rear a dozen snaky heads. It was death's absolute presence that confronted them...
...nice for the kids and the wallpaper). Capsules can be made light-sensitive so that they form a photographic image. They can be magnetized and polarized. Unstable drugs and vitamins can be encapsulated to protect them from air and moisture. Tissue paper impregnated with perfume-filled capsules has no odor until it is rubbed gently on the skin...