Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the odor of seediness that clings to the hoboes, many are highly educated. Leonid is studying at a Moscow college. One of his colleagues, a linguist, spends his free time writing a semantic analysis of Communist Party documents. Another is a chemist who puts his skills to work by distilling juniper-berry moonshine for his friends. All are energized by the frenzied pace of street-corner capitalism, even as they fear the joyride may not last forever. Leonid, who once saw "unlimited possibilities for business," now is concerned that the government or the mafia may soon strangle the uncontrolled...
They speculate that the odor came from a truck transporting the chemical Mercapton, which odorizes natural gas to warn people of its presence. Gas in its natural form is odorless...
...seemed that [the smell] came right up the river and over to the Business School," he said. "With the weather conditions what they are they held the odor down to the ground...
...last report I had was that this odor hadbeen detected as far as Natick and Grafton," saidCarneiro. "The theory was that it was coming froma truck traveling west...
...endangered cult, subject to demonization by the fuming, nonsmoking majority. "Like wars of religion," writes Richard Klein in Cigarettes Are Sublime, "the campaign against smoking lends itself to cruel fanaticism and self-righteous indignation." People who would never dare chastise a co-worker for his body odor or four-letter vocabulary will demand of a smoker, "When you gonna give up that awful habit?" or just...