Word: odore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today much like West Germany did 15 years ago. Last year its national output climbed 4.7% , to $5.5 billion; by comparison, West Germany's production soared 9%, to $102 billion. While few are hungry or homeless, the country is drab, shabby and without shine. The characteristic Iron Curtain odor of ersatz gasoline fumes and onions fried in cheap grease permeates the atmosphere. The average person's monthly income is 600 East marks, or $270 at the unrealistic official rate of exchange, but only $38 at the free market rate. A pound of coffee costs 32 marks, the cheapest...
Adams refrained from closer contact: "The pervasive odor of cocoanut oil has proved an impassable barrier...
...grease that all too rapidly foul the usual hood's charcoal filter. A tiny ion tube of gold alloy releases a stream of negative ions when the hood is turned on, promptly attacking the positive ions in the air, around which the molecules of smoke and cooking odor gather. This precipitates the molecules on an easily washed aluminum filter-releasing fresh, clean air again. In three sizes and colors...
Because nothing is too good for their children, a man and his wife have installed in their home a $30,000 Happy-life Electrodynamic Playroom. Through intricate projections, odor machines and so on, the room is capable of becoming any place on earth that the children want to visit, including every sort of hanging garden and bower of bliss in the bibliography of never-never lands. The children, deprived of human love by the machine substitute, elect a sterner environment. They turn the room into a dry and baking swatch of the African veldt. In the end, they lock their...
...Paris, Irish Novelist Honor Tracy's favorite smell is the musty odor of the Metro on rainy days; in Spain, she prefers the fragrance of open sewers. "A vision comes," she writes, "an enchanting still life of broken glass and pomegranate rinds with a dead rat floating in iridescent water, and beckons to me sweetly...