Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meat has been eaten in every major German crisis at least since the time Frederick the Great, and is commonly referred to as "blockade mutton." It is tough, gamy, strong-flavored. In boiling or roasting, it gives off an odor reminiscent of a neglected zoo. Of European dog breeds, German dachshund is considered the most succulent. Cat, known as "roof rabbit," like rabbit, except sweeter and tougher. It can be fried like chicken or prepared casserole. Horse meat is dark, coarse, sweet and, except in young horses, very tough. Mixed with pork, it is used Italian and Hungarian salami...
...Steiner procured over 20 pounds of livers from persons who had died from cancer of the stomach, lung, esophagus, pancreas, rectum. All the livers were perfectly normal. He ground them, extracted the fat, dried the residue to "a flaky brown material with a disagreeable odor...
...Republic was bound from Hawaii to the eastern U. S., via San Francisco and the Panama Canal. Aboard were 1,800 enlisted men, 750 officers, wives and children. One day out of San Francisco, nine days from the Canal, Master-At-Arms Henry F. Dodd sniffed "a strange odor." He followed his nose four decks down, found a 12 -by-18-inch package. In it were two electrical coils, a time mechanism, two quarts of nitroglycerin. Overboard went the dismembered bomb. Henry Dodd said it was timed to go off well out in the Pacific, would have killed all hands...
...while Joe Kennedy had been in bad odor in London because he had declared himself against U. S. aid for England, was bluntly pessimistic about England's ability to defend herself. Later he changed his tune. Before he left London he conceded: "I did not know London could take it. I did not think any city could take it. I am bowed in reverence...
...could not quite believe it. A revolutionary smell clung to him like the faint, unmistakable odor of the cell and the cellar. It showed in his quack-doctor's beard and stump-speaker's hair, in his thin, restless hands and his flashing, nearsighted eyes; in his quick, alert, high-shouldered walk as he strolled about his garden. It persisted in his plotter's habits of thought, which made him the most potent critic of the regime he broke with and always a latent threat to it. The fate that all revolutionaries fear had pursued him wherever...