Word: odore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aspect of sin, as expressed in the outburst of a character in his last novel, Maltaverne: "I cannot give up this land, this stream, the sky beneath the tops of the pine trees, those beloved giants, that scent of resin and marshland, which-am I crazy?-is the very odor of my despair...
...Bureau of Water Hygiene found that some 900,000 persons in the tested areas were consuming water dangerously contaminated by such poisons as arsenic, lead, selenium and fecal bacteria. The water supply of another 2,000,000, though safe to drink, was held to be unacceptable in taste, odor or color. Since the bureau's survey sites were chosen as "reasonably representative," its report, projected to the entire population, could mean that millions of Americans are drinking water hazardous to their health. Some of the most troublesome spots...
...Riverhead, N.Y. When residents complained of red and black water with a hydrogen sulfide odor, the town's new treatment plant manager blamed fluoridation. Later investigation by county health officials revealed that a single well was introducing bacteria into the system...
Japan had plenty of company. In Australia last week, residents of Sydney were outraged by an enveloping stink of rotten eggs, which turned out to be a massive belch of hydrogen sulfide. Though officials blamed the offensive odor on an oil company plant, they were unable to prosecute for "lack of sufficient evidence." Like the Japanese, though, they did begin at last to strengthen antipollution laws and enforcement measures of the kind that have lately been applied to Sydney's famous beaches, which are now fouled by a daily outpouring of 200 million gallons of sewage...
...most of us they did not exist. Hypocritical? Yes. Smug? That too -insufferably so. But then so was the country. If the decade of the '50s had the suffocating "smell of the middle class," as Gloria Steinem, 34, says with distaste, then it was an odor that most Americans seemed to like...