Word: stench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...furrow-all learned to know the awful smell of burning human flesh, the flesh of a neighbor, of a man or woman as familiar as the parish pump. Mingling with the steam of washing day, or with the reek of autumn bonfires, or polluting the sweetness of June, that stench . . . even in a cruel age, left behind it a memory and a disgust...
...then there was the stench. The first few weeks he almost died from it. Even in undergraduate, who, he thought, were very insensitive, choked every time they passed. After a while, he didn't mind so much. No one seemed to want to wash cars with him, though...
...without invitation -but this might come in the form of a cockney footman's brisk bark to a roomful of ladies-in-waiting: "All what's 'ere dines with the Queen." Ponsonby was not allowed to smoke, even when decoding dispatches in his own room; the stench, complained the Queen, permeated the papers. But, on occasion, footmen and Highland servants could get so drunk that a royal dinner was punctuated by .the crash of china and the splash of wine from wavering bottles...
...Driscoll struck a bitter blow at Secaucus. The town, he said, was not a good advertisement for New Jersey-not good at all. The pig farms would have to be cleaned up, "or else." He knew, he added, that it was quite feasible to raise pigs without "an accompanying stench...
...Mile Stench. Pusan is a city of filth, poverty and disease-yet it is the major supply port of the Korean war. Its harbor is jampacked with ships from nearly a score of nations, bringing in fresh men and equipment, taking out the wounded and sick and wrecked or worn-out equipment. Pusan's days & nights are noisy with the clatter of U.S. military traffic, ancient taxis, rachitic streetcars (some from Atlanta), and the snorting and lowing of oxen. In dry weather dust all but obscures the city's one traffic light, which is attended by a listless...