Word: odore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iran. But Grumman officials were still worried about competition from McDonnell Douglas, so they bought a little extra insurance: they hired U.S.-based agents for $28 million to make sure that the deal went through. What Grumman did not know was that the agents it chose were in bad odor in Iran. When the Shah learned of the arrangement, he concluded that Grumman had included the $28 million in the $2.2 billion contract price and demanded that the price of the 80 planes be reduced by that much, as a kind of fine. Grumman, arguing that the money came...
...Mattresses spread on floors in hallways and next to urinals. . .food often infested with insects . . . many toilets will not flush and are overflowing . . . overpowering odor . .. exposed wiring poses a constant danger . . . inadequately heated and ventilated . . . rampant violence and jungle atmosphere .. . wholly unfit for human habitation...
...ubiquitous orange monarch, for example, is the only true round-trip migrant among the world's 20,000 species. Although only one family of butterflies is called satyrs, most males exhibit an aggressive libido as soon as they emerge from the chrysalis-they can detect females by odor, flight signals, and ultraviolet waves imperceptible to the human eye. Any colors that are perceptible are gathered here in a great rainbow of a book for collectors of butterflies, books, or examples of classic nature photography...
...nothing so radical as that. It's simply that for the past few weeks, there's been a terrible odor in the air, a stench so putrifying that if you dare to inhale, you may not live to regret...
...first glance, Swept Away seems to bear a sexist message. Its protagonists are conventional sexual stereotypes. Raffaella (played by Mariangela Melata) is a rich capitalist bitch vacationing on a chartered yacht, most in her element when berating the deckhand who brings her iced coffee for the offensive odor of his sweaty shirt; Gennarino (Giancarlo Giannini) is the long-suffering deckhand, devoted equally to the Communist Party and to machismo. The plot is equally classic: shipwrecked together on a beautiful mediterranean isle, the two characters reverse roles entirely. Proletarian Gennarino humiliates bourgeois Rafaella sadistically, avenging class oppression and affronts...