Word: odorized
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...strewn area before the Reichstag, choked every path through the Tiergarten, stood in neat, tight ranks between rows of planted cabbages in the little garden plots. A hot sun beat on the crowd; the air was heavy with sweat and whirls of dust from the sandy earth and the odor of cheap tobacco. A seven-year-old girl whimpered against her father's shoulder. He muttered to someone near him: "Why shouldn't she be here? These are historic hours. We're going to see freedom either reborn or reburied...
...autumn would End! If the sweet season, The late light in the tall trees would End! If the fragrance, the odor of Fallen apples, dust on the road, Water somewhere near, the scent of Water touching me; if this would end I could endure the absence in the night, The hands beyond the reach of bands, the name Called out and never answered with my name: The image seen but never seen with sight. I could endure this all If autumn ended and the cold light came...
...Final Solution to the central problem of existence. Unfortunately, the formula stubbornly eluded him. So he had himself put under ether a second time while stenographers stood by to record his revelation. It turned out to be a simple declarative sentence: "The entire universe is permeated with a strong odor of turpentine...
...will be needed for its houses. Rodman even hinted that the new loan was given to help Lustron concentrate on fixture-manufacturing, thus protecting RFC's original stake in Lustron. Cried Rodman: "This loan and the Government's entire relations with Lustron have an extremely bad odor...
Like most such books, this one remains readable despite all the impediments that a style of exaggerated journalese can throw in the way. Example: "With his nostrils distended by the provocative odor from 600 half-barrels of pistol powder, which he had foresightedly ordered from London, Thomas now turned into a full-fledged, fire-eating merchant of death...