Word: smells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oakland, says it is easy to spot neglected children because they "come to school every day yawning and tired. You know they stayed out late that night." Concurs classmate Mark Martin, also 12: "Some of the kids' parents are on drugs. You go in their house, and you can smell it." Such a homelife can further strengthen the attitude that school does not matter, especially if the parents themselves are without a diploma...
...have been gas because it didn't havemuch of a smell and it made me gag," saidextension school student Joel C. Tillinghast
...1890s. And in terms of sexual politics, the seedy, overheated rooms of Lautrec's brothels are not much different from the satin bower in which, rather more than a century before, Boucher painted the rosy buttocks of the royal mistress Miss O'Murphy. It's just that they smell more real, even as Lautrec takes his sardonic delight in aestheticizing them in a different way, as emblems of what the age called decadence...
Critics say Baker has missed signals that he might have caught if he were less insulated by his tiny team from the Foreign Service and outside experts. He consistently underestimated the power of nationalism in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Preoccupied with Gorbachev and German unification, he did not smell the trouble brewing in Baghdad as Saddam Hussein moved closer to invading Kuwait...
Skinner, an avid and now somewhat embarrassed environmentalist who did the indoor decorating job herself with a friend, says the mildly rancid smell of the paint got worse after it was applied during the Thanks-giving holidays...