Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Before the gendarmes arrived, Stravinsky scrambled out a backstage window. At 2 in the morning he piled into a cab with Nijinsky, Diaghilev and his friend Jean Cocteau, and drove through the Bois de Boulogne. Cocteau remembers: "We were silent; the night was cool and clear. The odor of the acacias told us we had reached the first trees. Coming to the lakes, Diaghilev, bundled up in opossum, began mumbling in Russian . . . tears running down [his] cheeks...
...addressed to the "hip harness and bosom bolster business," heralded a wartime camouflage cloth impregnated by a top secret process with "a per- manent odor of hibiscus, hydrangea, and old rubber boots." It concluded: "If you want to achieve that careless look and avoid skater's steam, kill two birds with one stone by getting a camouflaged callipygian* camisole." Such lusty ballyhoo - for Springs Mills' "Springmaid" fabrics - startled readers of the high-necked New York Times. It drew stares from some readers of TIME, FORTUNE, This Week and the Saturday Evening Post, which also ran the illustrated...
...arguments in the Tito controversy have no bearing on the real nature of the rift. Tito's failure to collectivize the peasants, for instance, is matched by the Polish, Czech and Rumanian Communist parties, none of which have collectivization programs. Yet these parties seem to be in good odor with Zhdanov and his Cominform...
...That the Bible teaches "a single, clear, ethical code, applicable to everyday living . . . although they had read how Noah pleased God with the odor of a sweet-smelling sacrifice and how Micah cried out against [burnt offerings]. ... It was as though Jesus had never said: 'Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time . . . but I say unto...