Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Science may yet save the musk deer. Perfume chemists in modern laboratories are working hard to perfect a synthetic musk odor. Meanwhile, the deer himself (carrying his hairy, walnut-sized pouch at the base of his abdomen) will try to outrun his pursuers...
Most successful experimenter was Dr. Wallace Carothers of Du Pont. While trying to synthesize a silklike fiber, he stumbled upon a compound with a wonderful musky odor. Under the name of Astro-tone, it is widely used as a musk substitute. (Returning to bis original quest, Du Font's Carothers did women an even greater service by discovering nylon...
...People grow used to one race's normal body odor and do not notice it. But the odor of one race is sometimes strange and objectionable to another race. Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, in A Study of History, tells of a dainty English lady in South Africa who hired Kaffir servants. One little black girl fainted repeatedly in the lady's presence. The inexperienced child was unaccustomed to the shocking smell of white people...
...swarthy Mexican Indian sat dolefully on one of the clinic's bright, white beds and wrinkled his nose at the strange odor of Lysol. Suddenly his eyes widened slightly. Bearing down on him, with a hypodermic in one hand and an alcohol swab in the other, was a blonde American girl. "Caramba" he muttered, "Me va a injector la hueral" The girl smiled politely, swiftly completed her job, then turned to a sobbing little Indian boy. "No tengas miedo" she promised. Then she pulled down his pants, gave him an injection in the backside and hurried on to another...
From the pooling of resentments and initials came I.C.P.A. - Independent Citizens for Political Action. But the last two words, said westerners, had left a bad odor in voters' nostrils. So the 300 delegates reconsidered, settled on "Progressive Citizens of America," with Kingdon and Davidson as cochairmen. From Henry Wallace, who had yet to make a go of it as an independent, the amalgamated left got its keynote: "To prevent the Republican Congress and the laissez-faire big businessmen from leading us down the high road of boom, bust...