Word: smells
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...certain smell pervades the cities of Eastern Europe these days. I don't mean anything as elegant or metaphorical as the smell of wilting communism or the smell of greed, with American corporations swarming in and dominating the market. No, this is a smell in the most literal sense, a smell that surges at you from dark courtyards as you walk down the street, that engulfs you as you walk into grand, decaying flats. This smell, it seems, may be combination of sewage, dust, beer, sweat, exhaust and cigarettes; it is smell I have never encountered in the United States...
...Crimson was on fire. Harvard could feel that it was close, could smell Penn's tentativeness, could hear the screaming fans...
...view of Annenberg Hall was impressive last night, but the smell was even better...
...asked my mother. She suggested I could call all the hotels and cafes in town. Some said no; others just hung up. "That isn't the way you do it," my mother advised. "You have to paint them a picture. They have to actually see the sweet peas and smell them. Then they'll buy them...
Whether they came to celebrate the purple and white blossoms by comparing the number of petals of various Syringa species or by rolling down hills covered with dandelions, the roughly 20,000 people who packed Harvard's botanical museum/lab all came to smell the flowers...