Word: odore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enough, as a sculptor of wood. Among the first sights Sculptor Gross saw in his native Carpathian Mountains were towering forests of firs and pines; among the first sounds he heard were the bite of ax in tree and the screech of sawmills slicing logs into boards. "Smelling the odor of a pine or some other tree," he says today, "I feel like pressing close to its fragrance...
...year later, when we began to go to the zoo, we discovered that reindeers have an awful odor and, being behind a fence, staring out unhappily, they couldn't even fly. At fourteen we realized that Santa was so fat that his ability to walk, not to mention fly, was a highly dubious question. With another year, morality entered the picture, and we decided that a big-red-nose was a sure sign of excessive drinking, his bulging waist a sign of slovenly eating, and his shaggy-white-beard a sign of sloppiness and laxness...
...Fetid Odor." Watered down as it was-in its original form it had bluntly accused the U.S.S.R. of genocide-the Cuban resolution infuriated the Soviets and their Hungarian stooges. Hungary's Deputy Foreign Minister Endre Sik, by his own admission a former Soviet citizen, flatly denied that any deportations were taking place and contended that "this declaration by our government makes it clear that there is nothing for the General Assembly to discuss." Shaggy-haired Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov snarled that the Cuban resolution "has about it the fetid odor of provocation" and blamed the trouble in Hungary...
...also smell its prey without breathing. When the snake's forked tongue flicks in and out, it conveys odor-laden air to smell organs inside the mouth. After the snake has sunk its fangs in a small, warm animal, it does not try to hold it. The animal runs a few feet or yards until the poison brings it down. Then the snake follows by scent, flicking its delicate tongue, and starts the slow business of swallowing the meal. The injected venom contains a substance that starts the digestive process before the animal reaches the snake's stomach...
...scarcely be seen through the swaddling layers of worshipfulness. Yet something of his genuineness, of his dedication to the job of government, comes through. He was a Tammany boy, protege of a Lower East Side saloonkeeper turned political boss; yet he managed to stay clear of the Tammany odor. When he spoke on government to a distinguished group of scholars at Harvard, one professor remarked: "If I had a transcript of that speech, I would have the greatest textbook on civics ever written...