Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Advertising is in bad odor today. Many are denouncing it as an out and out menace. . . . Now, we are all to blame, of course, but . . . it's the agency writers that are pulling down the whole shining edifice. There's too much sizzle and too little steak. . . . [They] blithely take over the field of morals, metaphysics, and theology. . . . [They] guarantee that [the reader] and everyone dear to her will live happily and untouched by tragedy for the rest of their natural days if she only has this jar of skin cleanser. . . . The unclogging of the pores north...
...today and during the 1937-1939 period in which the action of the book takes place: can the Jewish need for a home in Palestine be better met by the peaceful text-book tactics which have brought frustration, or by the more expedient terrorist activities tainted with the unsavory odor of gangsterism? It takes Joseph two years to decide upon the second course. Through Joseph's eyes, Koestler gives the reader a vivid impression of a typical Marxist agricultural commune, and the immense difficulties involved in buying desert and turning it into a self-sustaining home are presented in detail...
...bitter when swallowed, produces nausea and a splitting headache. The throat tightens, and the victim gasps for breath, reels, stares wildly without seeing, is seized by convulsions, and falls unconscious. Then, like an expiring balloon, his laboring lungs and heart slowly collapse. Over all hangs the faint odor of bitter almonds...
...There were pieces of glass in his mouth and an odor of cyanide on his breath...
...threatened to buy elsewhere or to set up a competing A. & P. subsidiary. Result: a two-price structure in which the lower price is paid by A. & P., the higher price by A. & P.'s retail competitors. A.C. Co.'s practices, said the court, "leave a bad odor...