Word: odorized
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...Ivar Asbjørn Følling 74, now retired, received $25,000. As head of biochemistry at Oslo's University Hospital, he was the first doctor to pay attention to a woman who reported that the urine of her two retarded children had a strangely pungent odor. Dr Følling took the trouble to find out why: the children's urine contained phenylpyruvic acid. As a result of his work, it is now known that because of a genetic defect, such children lack an enzyme essential to the metabolism of phenylalanine, a constituent of most protein...
...basement was equally inundated, and the Quincy superintendent reported that "the wind is blowing rain in through the walls of Mather." New Quincy was plagued by a sewer backup. Two pumps were kept working Saturday and Sunday pumping out the sewers in an effort to remove the unpleasant odor...
...with nozzles set inconspicuously at intervals. The plumbing is connected to a tank of water-base Pyraid insecticide; when the owner flicks a switch, a pump jets the lethal mist over the area. A two-minute spray is effective for about half a day, gives off a pleasant lemon odor. The device is made by Feller Chemical Co. of Woodside, N.Y. De luxe unit, adequate for coverage of a 5,000-sq.-ft. area...
Broadway producers are tiring of the traditional tryout towns; they are, after all, so close to New York. When a heavy wind blows south from Boston or New Haven, it too often carries to Manhattan an unpleasant odor that bodes ill for the play heading for Broadway. Moreover, in the super-envious world of the theater, too many good old friends from around 44th Street like to flock to the nearby roadshows in gleeful hopes of bottling the last gasp...
...inhabited by storks, the near-sacred birds of Spain, standing high in their twig nests and fanning their young with great wings. The gypsies were on the road last week, trekking north for the summer. In hot. sunny squares, cavernous cathedrals waited, filled with cool air and the dusty odor of saintly bones in silver boxes...