Word: odore
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...children are unafraid. But Corbett is taking no chances with his 10 grandkids. He does a three- to six-month prep with them, one by one, just before they reach age 3. First he takes them to the airport to accustom them to the roar of engines and the odor of fuel. When they're ready, they venture out on the wing, then into the cockpit. Only after they ask to go up does Corbett take them. Afterward, he proudly awards each one a personalized first-flight certificate and photos of the occasion. "It's their day," he says. "They...
...August 3: 8:15 a.m.—Officer dispatched to a report of a microwave causing smoke and bad smell in the Landmark Center. Officer reported that someone put metal into the microwave on the 3rd floor, which caused the smoke and odor...
...HUPD officers investigated a suspicious odor in Adams House. The officers determined that the smell was gas from a burnt out stove pilot light that had gone...
...also became best sellers, and the book will ultimately appear in more than 30 languages. Someday, centuries hence, this phenomenon may seem easily explicable. Of course: How could such a book fail? After all, it is about a physically repulsive 18th century Frenchman with no discernible personality, no body odor and the keenest sense of smell the world has ever seen...
...French Revolution, Grenouille is a foretaste of modern man as monstrous solipsist or, as a contemporary describes him, an "entirely new specimen of the race." The novel's emphasis on the sense of smell is disquieting, given the deodorizing proclivities of modern life: "The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it." And those readers who feel they are wasting their time with novels unless they are picking up facts will welcome Süskind's encyclopedic overview...