Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the caldrons of the subways came a hot, sour, brownish odor-a smell of sweating men, of dank nests burned out by flamethrowers. Out of the subway's stench emerged boys in grey-green and hobnailed boots. These were among the last-the Hitlerjugend. Some were drunk and some reeled from weariness, some sobbed and some hiccupped. One more Platz in the last long mile to the Wilhelmstrasse had been won, and one more Red banner flapped over a scene of dead bodies and discarded swastika armbands...
...corset. For two years no one between its covers has given birth to an illegitimate child, or even been seduced. The siren never wins the sweet young thing's husband; the crooked lawyer never does Honest John out of his inheritance; every last confession ends in an odor of uplift...
Around the General stretched ten square miles of devastation, gutted office buildings, wrecked churches, a huge junkpile of crumpled tin. roofs. And stinking in the rubble were the bodies of at least 12,000 Japanese, merged in death's sickly odor with the bodies of thousands of Filipinos. The end came in fiery drama...
...have contracted any of the following diseases: athlete's foot, scurvy, beriberi, housemaid's knee, ringworm, malaria, St. Vitus' dance, bubonic plague, cold, sore throat, sore back, body odor or halitosis...
From across the mountain it is possible to smell the victory, clear and sweet. Its odor is different from the odor of defeat in eastern China. It is as different as is the odor of the valley of the Burma Road, full of bananas, pineapples and tropical ferns, from that of the highway to Kweiyang, covered with ice and the stink of death...