Word: odore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Behold, our butter stinketh!" was all it took for an undergraduate to be expelled from Harvard for insubordination in 1776. Although the food may have improved in the last two hundred years, the men who rule Harvard have not. Declare "Weinberger stinketh..." or "Duarte reeketh..." with the pungent odor of burning flesh, and you may be tossed out of school. In the wake of the Weinberger protest the Faculty Council, Bok & Co, hope to enact a new gag rule and disciplinary code for political protestors...
...power humanely but prefer to exercise their strength through brutality. We are caught in a situation akin to the proverbial contest with the skunk. Both of us get covered by the wretched smell, but the skunk does not care. He thinks that is a powerful nation's natural odor...
Still, given all that there is to endure now, as was the case last year at Lowell House--noise, odor, lack of sleep, lack of privacy--it seems that the University could have made some effort to alleviate student problems linked to renovations where possible...
Unlike most of South Africa, homelands like Bophuthatswana allow blacks and whites to mingle openly. Still, South Africa is in such bad odor because of apartheid that Kerzner has to pay platinum-plated premiums to get American entertainers like Linda Ronstadt and Kenny Rogers to brave possible censure for having performed at Sun City. Two years ago, Kerzner paid Frank Sinatra $2 million for nine shows over seven days, charging up to $85 per seat. Although such prices create a kind of economic apartheid at the resort since most blacks cannot afford admission, Kerzner argues that Sun City is beneficial...
...slowly sank to the ground to assume as submissive a pose as possible. The hair on each male's head-crest stood erect . . . canines were fully exposed, the irises of ordinarily soft brown eyes glinted yellow-more like those of cats than of gorillas-and an overpowering fear odor permeated the air. For a good half-hour all five males screamed if I made even the slightest movement...