Word: rancid
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...Rancid Odor. Bennett Clark began with the MacLeish prose. In his husky voice he read aloud from MacLeish's Preface to an American Manifesto: "The great American capitalist and his son and his daughter-in-law and his banking system might well have been chosen for hatefulness. ..." What, demanded the Senator, did that mean...
Senator Clark continued reading: " 'They have soaked themselves in the rancid odor of capitalistic stupidity and greed. . . .'" With a note of triumph in his voice, the Senator asked: "Mr. MacLeish, do you think you would be able to bear, with your sensitive nostrils, standing in the same room with Ed Stettinius, Will Clayton, Mr. Grew and people like that...
MacLeish: "I do not notice any giving-off of a rancid odor among those people...
...rice and all the vitamins too. Brown rice (the stage be fore the bran and germ are removed) is both rich and edible, but it has never been as popular as white rice because it 1) looks less attractive and 2) keeps less well (the oil it contains becomes rancid). Harwell hunted for a process that would somehow transfer the valuable food elements from the outer coatings to the white kernel, but his pressure cooker experiments were failures...
...long short tales-hissing with suspense and detonating in surprise endings-on a guaranteed, all-weather theme: what happens (lust at first sight) when a middle-aging U.S. male with a lively libido and no intellect meets a female with curves and no inhibitions. All three stories have the rancid air of authenticity which Cain obtains by screwing down his competent microscope on a drop of that social seepage which discharges daily into U.S. tabloids and criminal courts. And as in any drop of ditch water, the action in Cain's tales is of infusorial violence...