Word: odore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slight Odor. Setting up bachelor quarters in a windmill, Friedman went to work and in time was put in charge of a project by which the colonel, among others, hoped to prove by cipher that Sir Francis Bacon had written the entire works of Shakespeare (see FOREIGN NEWS). After achieving this lofty honor, Friedman married one of the colonel's as sistant cipher clerks, Elizabeth Smith. As World War I loomed on the European horizon, the impulsive colonel learned with a start that the U.S. Government had no cryptologists whatever. With scarcely a by-your-leave, he offered...
...Alaska, with returns still coming in by bush plane from isolated districts, Stevenson led Kefauver by 5,900 to 3,700 and cinched Alaska's six convention votes. Collecting more votes than either Democrat was Republican Eisenhower, even though his Administration was supposedly in bad odor because Ike had opposed immediate Alaskan statehood. The straw: In Alaska, at least, the Administration's territorial and conservation policies are not nearly as unpopular as the Democrats have cracked them...
...poisonous sulphur trioxide, filled his room and quickly enveloped the small courtyard entries. No one was injured by the break, which occurred at 7:30 p.m., but many students were forced to leave their rooms. A strong odor prevailed for at least a half hour afterwards...
Bhave has collected gifts amounting to 4,600,000 acres, but his disciples can point to only 213,000 acres actually redistributed. About half this amount has come from landlords in Bihar state, who have given Bhave large tracts of barren land, and thereby achieved a spurious odor of sanctity, while continuing to exploit tenants on their good land. Criticism of the muddled organization of Bhave's Bhoodan (land-gift) movement has steadily mounted. Cracked Bombay Governor Harekrushna Mahtab: "Gandhi wished to abolish poverty; Bhoodan merely distributes...
...Eugenie for the world's most comely ichthyologist: Dr. Eugenie (Lady with a Spear} Clark. Yet on closer inspection, the dugong is no pinup ,girl. Both male and female dugongs have sharp, coarse whiskers and give off what is delicately described as "a strong, distinct, aromatic dugong odor." Clams & Cucumbers. The dugong shows signs of becoming extinct. Hundreds were slaughtered in the 18705 after an Australian firm offered $9 a gallon for dugong oil; many more were killed and eaten in World War II, when-Japanese garrisons in the South Pacific convinced themselves that dugong meat tastes like...