Word: stank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That 'Stank...
...minutes show that there was only one cheese which the members thought 'stank.' Norwegian goat cheese had a taste that was rich, sweet, flat, condensed milk, and oily. It had the appearance of peanut butter and with its sour-like aroma, it was unanimously despised by the entire group...
Last week Dr. Armand-Delille was probably sorry, because myxomatosis was pullulating over most of France, killing up to 99% of the wild rabbits. Dead rabbits littered the roads. Sick rabbits with horribly swollen heads hopped feebly under the wheels of cars. Fields and woods along the Loire stank with decaying bodies. The epizootic showed no signs of slowing down; it was approaching the Belgian and Spanish frontiers and would probably spread through all of mainland Europe...
...recently about chlorophyll pills as deodorants. "You should have been with me in my schooldays," he replied, "when I took my horse, Pilot, in from the field where he had been cropping chlorophyll-laden grass and drove him on a hot day until he reeked with sweat. He stank." To a reader who asked whether she should buy a mattress board to make her bed harder, Dr. Chase wrote: "Personally, I have always liked a sloppy, soft...
Then they pushed into the house, saw instantly that someone had set the fire. The unswept, cobwebbed rooms stank from a litter of oily rags; the inner walls of Adamic's barn, which did not burn, had also been doused with oil, apparently taken from the farmhouse fuel tank. A moment later, they found the owner of the sedan. Adamic was lying on his back on a couch in an upstairs bedroom. He was wearing dungarees and a windbreaker, with a pillow at his back, a .22 Mossberg rifle across his lap-and a bullet wound just above...