Word: odore
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...government that have a greater concern for credibility than for truth. He warns of creeping trivialization that downgrades history as nostalgia, and educators as socializers rather than conveyors of knowledge. Literature is trivialized by absurdists, emotions by promiscuity, and in the locker rooms of professional athletics, Lasch sniffs the odor of terminal degradation. Sport, once the arena of heroes and spiritual renewal, is now a stage for entertainers. The "dictum-'winning isn't the most important thing, it's the only thing,' " says Lasch, "represents a last-ditch defense of team spirit in the face...
...seems that young Southern women have bought the cosmetics mystique [Dec. 11] lock, stock and Farrah. As a result, I cannot use the campus bus system here at the University of Georgia-the perfume odor is overwhelming...
...River is becoming something of an international scandal. When it crosses into the U.S. from Mexico at the town of Calexico, it is so loaded with filth, ranging from parts of animal carcasses to human feces, that even hard-nosed health officials are sickened by the sight and odor. Says Dr. L. Lee Cottrell, health officer of California's Imperial County: "It may not be the dirtiest river in the country, but I can guarantee you there is none dirtier...
What doomed Brooke was the odor hanging over his personal affairs. Not only did he go through a highly publicized divorce, but he was also accused of failing to report to the secretary of the Senate a loan that he had listed in a financial statement to his wife's lawyers during the divorce proceedings. Still pending is an investigation by Massachusetts officials of a possible $72,000 Medicaid fraud involving his late mother...
...odor is often very overpowering around breakfast, but the heavy cooking for lunch and dinner seems to drive the fumes out of the dining area. Unfortunately, Gree said, migrating odors "can made the library virtually uninhabitable...