Word: stench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week tenants complained of a persistent stench coming from the Clé apartment. Policemen broke down the door. Charles Clé lay on the couch, his wrists slashed, a bullet in his temple. All the furniture was broken, picture frames and glassware smashed on the floor. In the bathroom, police found the tub covered with plywood boards and a mattress. In it was the decomposing body of Félicie Crippa, eleven months dead of head wounds. Instead of Lysol, Clé had poured several gallons of Eau de Cologne into the water...
...sleuthing job breeds special techniques. The older film gets, the worse its stench. Says Daniel Jones, chief film scout for NBC's Project 20: "I go into an old film vault like a truffle hound. I go to the cans that smell worst first." Then he dumps water on them against the common risk that the old film may burst spontaneously into flames...
...stench of decay was recognizable in Parisian cinemas where newsreel audiences booed and jeered an endless procession of politicos marching vainly into the Palais Bourbon to argue and temporize. Railway workers, bus drivers, mailmen, stagehands, customs inspectors, garbage collectors, undertakers and thousands of other French workers walked out in a paralyzing general strike, leaving Paris streets empty of buses and littered with trash. Unless the government can persuade the Bank of France to lend it 250 billion francs, it will not be able even to meet its next civil-service payroll...
...hair was still dripping wet" and put in solitary confinement as a spy. Two years later she was moved to the women's dormitory at Fo Utca, where "39 women slept in 14 bunks, breathed air that came through a tiny window blocked by an iron plate. The stench was terrible. For 14 months not a drop of hot water to wash with. In winter the water was so cold that it froze solid. Once, we sacrificed six precious bowls of hot soup to wash our hair...
...Stanley, Virginia-born Lambert Davis, director of the University of North Carolina Press, wrote: "[You] have taken the ridiculous position of asserting, in effect, that being distinguished is an accomplishment possible only for people of Caucasian ancestry. You have succeeded in making the leadership of the Commonwealth both a stench and a laughingstock in the nation. I believe that I can best show my loyalty to the great traditions of Virginia by declining your invitation...