Word: odore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mackinaw Bridge, the shores of Lake Michigan were taken over last month by dead alewives. The fish,*members of the herring family, washed ashore on every incoming wave, piling up on the beaches faster than bulldozers and tractors could clear them away. They filled the air with the odor of decay and drew swarms of mosquitoes and flies...
...Marvin tries to shape them up, they try to shake him down. In reply, he shovels on sarcasm and overtrains them until they drop with fatigue. When they refuse to shave with cold water, he takes away their razors and soap, an order which puts them in a bad odor and wins them the barracks sobriquet of "The Dirty Dozen...
They all laughed when the U.S. Army introduced the "E63 Manpack Personnel Detector" for experimental use in Viet Nam. The device, a 24-lb. chemical and electronic version of a nose, was designed literally to smell the body odor of concealed enemy troops. Now the G.I.s-and presumably the Viet Cong, too-are more impressed than amused. The "People Sniffer," as it is known in the field, has demonstrated that it can locate hidden enemy forces and has been ordered for dozens of U.S. infantry and artillery units...
...device is effective only when operated into the wind. Carried by the leading man in a patrol, for example, the E63 will pick up the odor of patrol members themselves if the wind is at their backs. But it is sensitive enough to pick out an upwind enemy sniper lying in ambush at distances greater than the range of most rifles. "There's no question about it now," says Lieut. Colonel Alvin Hylton, chemical officer of the 1st Infantry Division. "It works...
...odor of joss sticks also hangs heavy in the air of Hollywood's newest psychedelic store, The Infinite Mind, which is barely a month old. Proprietor Eldon Taylor, 25, insists that The Infinite Mind is "really just a toy shop for teen-agers," but he provides the ideal station from which to start a trip. Light boxes around the walls blink and fade and oscillate, floodlights of red, blue, yellow and green flicker on a paisley-patterned tapestry while the sounds of the Beatles or Ravi Shankar boom from strategically located loudspeakers...