Word: smelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Braden's Man. A onetime Delaware schoolteacher, George Messersmith has been in the diplomatic service 32 years-he had served in Canada, the Dutch West Indies, Belgium and Luxembourg before he went to Berlin. According to a colleague, he has "an uncanny nose that can smell an s.o.b. as far as the wind can carry the scent." He got the scent in Berlin almost immediately. In 1933 he wrote to Washington: "There is a real revolution here, and a dangerous situation." He was home, serving as Assistant Secretary of State, when the situation cracked in September...
...turreted granite buildings were a little too obviously intended for educating young females. The UNO council chamber had been built in only 15 days and still looked, somehow, as though an irascible electrician might crawl out from beneath a desk. There were blackboards in the halls, a strong smell of paint in the air, and neat signs which still read "Corrective Room" and "Meditation Chapel." And, like most other newcomers to New York City, UNO had been engulfed as well as accepted...
Blakesburg's Negroes, in the borrowed, freshly laundered autos of Blakesburg's white families, were out at a burial. When they saw the lights, they "didn't want to be accountable for borrowed property. . . . They started stepping on the gas." They brought back to Blakesburg "the smell of burning rubber tires, hot engines with radiators boiling over. . . . And all who hadn't gotten lost or wrecked on the highways hunted for the car owners on the Blakesburg streets. Their hurrying home to go into eternity from their native city was a touching scene to the white...
Mostly they thought of the life they had left behind them: "I go over each time we were with each other . . . the never-to-be-forgotten weekend spent at Caroline's . . . the walks in the woods, enjoying the fresh air and the smell of growing things...
...outskirts of the city, we put down the litter and turn back to fetch Father Superior. Most of the ruins are by now burned out. One of us remarks that the pungent smell reminds him of burned corpses...