Word: reeked
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...cool as effortlessly as New York City or London, the city of Shanghai, truth be told, is not a particularly pleasant place during the summer. It's a steambath, and when the occasional typhoon blows through, it will rain for three days nonstop. Many of the streets simply reek as garbage rots in the oppressive heat. Most people, if they have a choice, try to avoid Shanghai this time of year...
...cool as effortlessly as New York City or London, the city of Shanghai, truth be told, is not a particularly pleasant place during the summer. It's a steambath, and when the occasional typhoon blows through, it will rain for three days nonstop. Many of the streets simply reek as garbage rots in the oppressive heat. Most people, if they have a choice, try to avoid Shanghai this time of year...
...thing that threw me off was that the story has no reek of allegory or race didacticism where you might expect it. Instead, there’s humor, as when a black woman confronts Julia in the grocery store about how to properly style Gabe’s hair, a naturally blond hue which she accuses Julia of peroxiding, or when Julia’s friends speculate about the real identity of the baby’s father...
...will things ever get better? I can’t believe how awful I look. The deposits of fat beneath my eyelids are puffy. And I’m a pig. I couldn’t find my socks this morning so I’m sure my feet reek. I can’t remember the last time I washed my underwear. Why am I even taking Vietnamese? I live in Georgia. The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officer didn’t smile at me just now. Everyone hates me. All I want is to be loved...
...sputterings from Deputies - many of them anonymous - in the French press. Some of the loudest critiques came from the adherents of one conservative pretender to the French presidency, Finance and Economic Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. The political spitfire's frank desire for Chirac's job, next up in 2007, may reek of lèse-majesté to the President and his camp, but that hasn't impeded Sarkozy's growing influence in the party. After a strong performance as a law-and-order Interior Minister, he emerged from the debacle of the regional elections with the crucial economic portfolio, further...