Word: odorous
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...From the beginning, Niles says, he was hesitant about having a restaurant as a tenant. No matter how clean a restaurant is, he says, there are always problems with odor and trash...
...beat, in anticipation of a miracle, but to no avail. The herd mumbles that we should have taken the bus or train. Loyalists and optimists disagree with these dissenters, citing horror stories of eight-hour train rides with enough bodies in the car to cause a fire hazard and odor alert. A Harvard student declares, "It is times like these when you wish you went to Columbia...
Grizzled old jocks sitting around the training room comparing war stories and showing off battle scars are as familiar in organized sports as jockstraps and body odor. Today, however, with female sports participation at an all-time high (2.5 million high school girls and 145,000 college women will compete this year), the athletes telling war stories are more likely to have smooth faces and wear sports bras. The injuries have also changed. One in particular has sports doctors worried...
...caller told police of a strong smell of something burning coming from the basement area of the Semitic Museum on Divinity Ave. An officer reported numerous arc welders in the area created the odor...
SCRATCH AND SNIFF Don't hold your breath, but you may someday be able to take a smell test for Alzheimer's. Patients with mild memory problems were asked to scratch and sniff odor-infused patches and then identify the scent. During a two-year follow-up, none of those who could accurately distinguish peanut from pizza, for example, went on to develop Alzheimer's. But nearly half who scored poorly--and, interestingly, didn't realize they had an impaired sense of smell--did develop the disease. Apparently the olfactory pathway, and probably the area in the brain responsible...