Word: odorous
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Thus, for all the efforts of Asian leaders, it is likely that the odor of Asian corruption will linger for some time to come, though perhaps not with the ripe impact achieved by an independent legislator in South Korea's National Assembly, when he dumped a can of human excrement over a row of Cabinet ministers he accused of letting smugglers operate in the country. Progress is needed on every front-social, economic, political. Education is an imperative, for a well-informed electorate will hold to closer account the officials of a democratic government. And opposition parties must...
...Mackinaw Bridge, the shores of Lake Michigan were taken over last month by dead alewives. The fish,*members of the herring family, washed ashore on every incoming wave, piling up on the beaches faster than bulldozers and tractors could clear them away. They filled the air with the odor of decay and drew swarms of mosquitoes and flies...
...turn salicylic acid into acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin), a compound related to acetic acid is used. If the raw aspirin is then cleared of impurities by washing with water, any remaining water will react to create a minute quantity of acetic acid-vinegar. This accounts for the vinegary odor and some of the irritating effect of much fresh aspirin and of most old aspirin. So Bayer uses a more costly, water-free process...
...Marvin tries to shape them up, they try to shake him down. In reply, he shovels on sarcasm and overtrains them until they drop with fatigue. When they refuse to shave with cold water, he takes away their razors and soap, an order which puts them in a bad odor and wins them the barracks sobriquet of "The Dirty Dozen...
...device is effective only when operated into the wind. Carried by the leading man in a patrol, for example, the E63 will pick up the odor of patrol members themselves if the wind is at their backs. But it is sensitive enough to pick out an upwind enemy sniper lying in ambush at distances greater than the range of most rifles. "There's no question about it now," says Lieut. Colonel Alvin Hylton, chemical officer of the 1st Infantry Division. "It works...