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Word: odorizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like the billionaire with the truly epic body-odor problem. This is a guy who's been on countless magazine covers and made a tremendous contribution to the economy -- one of those billionaires who's actually earned it -- and who, I discovered to my amazement when I met him for real one day, has apparently never showered in his life. It would be tasteless even to hint at who he is, but I assure you there are readers right now nodding their heads in vigorous recognition. They've met him too. (The first time I presumed it was an aberration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, Herbie, Don't Be Ridiculous | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...months residents sensed that all was not right at the Oxford Apartments, a 49-unit low-rise building on Milwaukee's crime-infested west side. A power saw buzzed at odd hours. The putrid odor of rotting meat flooded the corridors. Occasionally, a tenant would hear a cry or the thump of a falling object on the second floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Little Flat of Horrors | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...years Jeffrey lived with his grandmother in West Allis, Wis. During the late 1980s, Shari Dahmer recalled, a harsh chemical odor began to emanate from the basement and garage. When Jeffrey's father Lionel, a chemist, found "bones and the residue in the containers," Jeffrey told him that he had been stripping the flesh from an animal he had found. "Now I look at it, and I think that it's possible he was destroying human body parts," said Shari Dahmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Little Flat of Horrors | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

President George Bush calls it "a responsibility imposed by our successes" in the cold war. Columnist Pete Hamill calls it the new world odor. Fleeing Kurds, burying their dead in mountain tent cities, call it misery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Two Centuries of New World Orders | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

...motley convoy stops before the small town of Altun Kupri, 25 miles from Kirkuk, and everyone jumps out. A truck with a flat tire zooms by from the direction of the city carrying wounded. One can smell the odor of burned flesh as it passes. As the twilight gathers, Abdul Rahman Aju Ali, 54, a barrel- shaped man with fierce eyes, explains, "We will attack at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Days with the Kurds | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

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