Word: stench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stench of sizzling human flesh filled the furnaces of German crematoriums last week as they worked overtime on the bullet-riddled remains of men and women who died fortnight ago in Adolf Hitler's "blood purge" (TIME, July 9). No respect was paid to the fact that cremation is against Catholic tenets. Into the flames, despite the protests of grieving relatives, went the corpse of Dr. Erich Klausener, beloved leader of the Fatherland's Catholic Action Society. What Dr. Klausener had done to deserve death the State had not yet officially said, merely classed him with "other traitors...
...London it seemed like 1913 again when a great war scare stench was uncorked by Henry Wickham Steed, onetime editor of the London Times. He claimed to have obtained from Berlin official documents showing that for years successive German Governments have had secret agents in London and Paris preparing surveys for bomb, gas and germ raids. According to Mr. Steed, whose acumen and veracity stand high among his countrymen, harmless germ cultures have lately been released in London and Paris subways and the spread of the germs recorded by German agents. Last week the Nazi press bureau retorted: "There...
...prey over the parapet and emptied the contents of his two black six shooters into the quivering flesh. Satisfied by the sound of the six shots which evidently startied the skunk into a corpse, Apted, still calm, ordered his minions to inter the deceased in the midst of the stench-stained scene of carnage. It was a lonely service for few of the once optimistic on lookers could brave the horrors of the quieted battlefield...
While on the subject of Coach Mikkola, the boys have been complaining of late about the stench of his cigarettes. Nobody seems to know just what kind they are, but Jaako can't get beyond the door of the Varsity Club before his presence is known all over the building...
Ambergris is hard to recognize. Though it is usually ash-grey, it may be white, black, yellow or mottled like marble. It may have a fragrant odor, or an overpowering stench. Some experts claim that even chemical analysis is shaky and that ambergris, like a fine wine, may be truly identified only by its bouquet. For use in perfumes raw ambergris must be ground in a mortar, soaked for six months in 95% alcohol...