Word: odorous
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...toedness as a recessive trait are a good rule-proving exception"). In a tone of things-I-never-knew-till-now, he announces several latter-day commonplaces, such as 1) under equal environmental advantages, Negroes stack up well with whites in IQ tests, 2) Negroes have no unique odor of their own, 3) Africa is a racial crazy quilt, and the modern American Negro is no more closely related to his African ancestors than a modern Greek is to an ancient Greek, 4) all blood is red, and it is uniform except for blood groups. Well-meant though...
...bluejacket staggered through the thick odor and the rude sounds of the old port of Naples. A ragged urchin tugged and chanted at him: "You wanna girl, mister? I gotta my sister for you. Come on, Joe! Cheap!" the sailor pulled away, then slumped drunkenly to the sidewalk. Mouse-quick, the eight-year-old tried to grab the sailor's wallet, but the sailor weakly pushed him away. Unable to roll the man, the urchin sped away to sell him: in Naples bigger urchins pay 500 lire, perhaps 1,000 lire, for news of a likely victim to beat...
...Slight Odor. Setting up bachelor quarters in a windmill, Friedman went to work and in time was put in charge of a project by which the colonel, among others, hoped to prove by cipher that Sir Francis Bacon had written the entire works of Shakespeare (see FOREIGN NEWS). After achieving this lofty honor, Friedman married one of the colonel's as sistant cipher clerks, Elizabeth Smith. As World War I loomed on the European horizon, the impulsive colonel learned with a start that the U.S. Government had no cryptologists whatever. With scarcely a by-your-leave, he offered...
...Alaska, with returns still coming in by bush plane from isolated districts, Stevenson led Kefauver by 5,900 to 3,700 and cinched Alaska's six convention votes. Collecting more votes than either Democrat was Republican Eisenhower, even though his Administration was supposedly in bad odor because Ike had opposed immediate Alaskan statehood. The straw: In Alaska, at least, the Administration's territorial and conservation policies are not nearly as unpopular as the Democrats have cracked them...
...poisonous sulphur trioxide, filled his room and quickly enveloped the small courtyard entries. No one was injured by the break, which occurred at 7:30 p.m., but many students were forced to leave their rooms. A strong odor prevailed for at least a half hour afterwards...