Word: reeked
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...people like to read stories and books that reek with sin, that shame the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, that shock and insult high heaven? It is because millions in America are honeycombed with impurity, vice, adultery and moral rot. When they read popular books and magazines that sanction this . . . they feel less guilty about their own sins...
...stench of Buchenwald would reek in history. But how much of it was known to German civilians even in nearby Weimar? Sick with disgust, tough General George S. Patton ordered the burghers of the town to be taken through Buchenwald and shown its obscenities. Twelve hundred men & women of Weimar walked unwillingly through the camp and wept, retched, fainted. A young Hitler Madchen sobbed: "How awful...
...very dark and the air was choking with the reek of cordite and grit and the fine dry dust of rotten old woodwork. My eyes and nose were full of dirt. I was shivering from panic and excitement, but at the same time experiencing an extraordinary sensation of being completely all right and unhurt, no matter what horrible thing had happened...
...long, elastic curves, like carelessly hung nets [the lianas catch] falling leaves, branches, and fruits, [hold] them for years until they sag and burst like rotten bags, scattering blind reptiles, rusty salamanders, hairy spiders . . . the comejen grub gnaws at the trees like quick-spreading syphilis . . .; everywhere is the reek of fermentation, steaming shadows, the sopor of death, the enervating process of procreation...
Trumpets of Victory. German morale never quite recovered from the disillusion of October 1941 (TIME, June 29). Last reek's disillusion may prove to have cut even deeper when World War II is history. For weeks radio and press had trumpeted the inevitability of victory. High Command communiques, though more cautious, reported an unfaltering advance toward the Stalingrad goal...