Word: odorous
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...generations of Americans grew up with the ethereal smell of bubble-gum-bathed baseball cards. Lying side by side in such close quarters, the cards reeked of the gum (and couldn't have tasted much worse). Every winter, kids desperately awaited this unmistakable odor as a sure sign that spring had sprung, that baseball diamonds were green once again, that God was in heaven and all was right with the world...
...version of Smokey Robinson's My Guy -- "There's not a man today/ Who could take me away/ From my God" -- and Sister Act instantly enslaves its audience. A few more tunes, a chase, a conversion % (nowadays every movie needs one), and by its end, the picture exudes the odor of a summer...
...sewage-treatment plant in the bedraggled New Jersey city of Camden % began taking on sewage waste from every other community in the county. To protest the stench, residents stopped paying their annual $275 sewer fees. Last week the sewer authority halved the charge, but the plant's odor still tinges...
Neither the fire department nor Harvardengineers would speculate about the source orcomposition of the odor, saying only that it wasan unknown irritant...
...Donoghue said the odors definitely abatedwhile the fire companies were inside. "We havedowngraded [the situation] to a nuisance irritanttransient odor," O'Donoghue said...