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Word: stench (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will not yield to that which I know is wrong," cried he. "Abandonment of the principles involved anywhere is to forsake them everywhere." His lowest blow: "The livid stench of sadism, sex, immorality and juvenile pregnancy infesting the mixed schools of the District of Columbia and elsewhere." Washington schoolmen, whose delinquency problems are no worse than most big-city school systems', angrily lashed back at the myth created by four years of Dixie Congressmen's efforts to prove that integration does not work in the nation's capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Law v. the Governor | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...always reply, smiling, and bring us another of Peter's favorite pear-filled, chocolate-covered fumates. You do not get such fumates everywhere. We would stay there in the warm pink exciting womb-like garret until the basketball jocks dropped in for pear-filled fumates, bringing with them the stench of the cages...of Harvard. Of Cambridge, that book-lined, brick-paved prison...

Author: By M.h. Reeves, | Title: A Chimney of Nasturtiums | 12/17/1958 | See Source »

...Walden Pond is a national shrine, as renowned as Mt. Rushmore or Buffalo Bill's Grave, and it should be kept free from the stench of the local refuse, if for no other reason, simply to preserve its attractiveness for the tourists of America who must have some place to drive to during vacation-time. Besides, modern techniques require big yellow bulldozers to ply dump areas throughout the day, and the continual pilgrimage of trucks and trailers, with the bulldozers snorting through the pines like prehistoric beasts, would be a grotesque way to shatter the placid hours of this venerable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quiet Desperation | 10/28/1958 | See Source »

...paused in the shadow of Widener to apply a roll-on deodorant stick, and the past (like so much Proust) loomed up with the moist of memory. For four long years Portia had pursued the stuff and stench of animal husbandry. She had mastered the chemistry of manure and the physics of the plow. She had emerged from North Dakota Ag (crossing a calf with a jumping bean for ready-made cheese) summa cum laude. And all those years she had nourished a dream...

Author: By Sharon Kemp and John D. Leonard, S | Title: Miss Parsley's Pilgrimage | 7/10/1958 | See Source »

...extraordinary narrative. My olfactory nerves tingled with the stench of Calcutta; the malignity and frustration were outside my own door. Man dreams to conquer the space about him; yet he cannot provide an abode in which his kind can live well and die decently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 7, 1958 | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

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