Word: odore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire staff of 200 at the smog agency is being tested for the nose jobs. Each employee is asked to don a mask attached to a dynamic olfactometer−a machine that regulates the strength of an odor by diluting it with air. Then he is subjected to a series of odor samples of varying strengths to establish the range in which his nose can identify 80% of the samples at a high odor concentration level and miss 80% at a low level. That range is known as the "confusion zone." When the tests are completed, the 100 employees with...
Once chosen, the panel will go into action any time the agency receives ten complaints about a particular odor within 90 days. If the apparent polluter happens to be an industrial concern, for example, investigators will go to the olfactory−as it were−and collect air directly from the smokestack. Each of the three panelists will then be asked to sniff 20 samples−ten from the smokestack and ten consisting of fresh air. If two of the three noses correctly identify eight of both the smoke and fresh air samples−in other words, if the odor...
...Negroes negrify themselves. Let them persist to the point of madness in what they're condemned to be, in their ebony, in their odor, in their yellow eyes, in their cannibal tastes ... Negroes, if they [whites] change towards us, let it not be out of indulgence, but terror...
...fact, 1876 undercuts Vidal's post-Watergate gloom. For his novel demonstrates that the nation was no Eden a hundred years ago. 7576 accurately and comically recounts the sins of the fathers. Maimed Civil War veterans beg on the streets. The odor of the recently destroyed Tweed Ring still hovers over New York City. In Washington, the corruption of the Grant Administration grows more garish by the day. Everything and everybody has a price. An appointment to West Point costs the applicant's parents $5,000, while a seat in the U.S. Senate can be obtained...
Renaissance writers insisted it destroyed grass, tarnished mirrors and dissolved asphalt. The sight of it, Australian aborigines believe, can turn a man's hair gray. Until 1967, campers at Glacier National Park were warned that its odor can incite bears to attack...