Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Delivery. In Muskegon, Mich., Charlie Chin smelled an odor unlike a wet washing, scampered to the basement of his laundry, found himself knee deep in 1,600 gallons of fuel oil that a confused truckman had piped...
With Correspondent Brewer as he arrived in Budapest was CBS Radio Correspondent Cecil Brown-thrice arrested on suspicion of spying-who told of the "odor of death which hangs over the half-destroyed capital" as he watched German soldiers dig out a few of the 7,000 dead, the 10,000 wounded. Stranded in Zagreb was A.P. Correspondent Max Harrelson, his passport seized by the new puppet Croat Government...
When an article in your magazine is good, it's the best there is for color, freshness, and punch. But when one stinks, there are no words to describe the odor. I refer to "Company D and The Old Man" in your Feb. 24 issue...
...were already clearing out as fast as they could get visas. Yugoslav oppositionists handed Prince Paul a memorandum complaining that the people were being told nothing. Presently police raided the headquarters of the oppositionist Democratic Party, seized its manifestoes and its leader, Milan Grol. It all had the familiar odor of the Hitler approach. At week's end it was reported that Yugoslavia had arranged a "compromise" with Adolf-Yugoslavia would be "nonaggressive" and would allow the Nazis to move down the Vardar Valley toward Greece. Next it was reported that Germany demanded full adherence to the Axis...
...touch on the starter, the motor roared, then settled into a gentle rumble. The odor of warm oil, warm metal filled the crowded tank; then the steady, rhythmic, lulling scrunch of the gears. Behind the motorized infantry, the motorcyclists, the trim anti-tank guns, the 68th moved into line, went past The Old Man at 20 m.p.h. Sergeant Pullen drove like a virtuoso, keeping his tank dressed with the four others on his left, watching the field for holes or stumps which would give him and his men a bashing blow against the steel walls...